[PATCH] bfd: Change num_group to unsigned int

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:56 AM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> elf.c failed with to with GCC 10 as of
>
> commit 906b3eb9df6c577d3f6e9c3ea5c9d7e4d1e90536
> Author: Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz>
> Date:   Tue Mar 24 11:40:10 2020 +0100
>
>     Improve endianess detection.
>
>             PR lto/94249
>             * plugin-api.h: Add more robust endianess detection.
>
> binutils-gdb/bfd/elf.c: In function ‘setup_group’:
> binutils-gdb/bfd/elf.c:740:35: error: overflow in conversion from ‘unsigned int’ to ‘int’ changes value from ‘num_group = 4294967295’ to ‘-1’ [-Werror=overflow]
>   740 |     elf_tdata (abfd)->num_group = num_group = -1;
>       |                                   ^~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1608: elf.lo] Error 1
>
> Change num_group in elf_obj_tdata to unsigned int to compile with GCC 10.
>
>         PR binutils/25717
>         * elf-bfd.h (elf_obj_tdata): Change num_group to unsigned int.
> ---
>  bfd/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
>  bfd/elf-bfd.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
> index 7cc34c1bb9..8ec3782d9f 100644
> --- a/bfd/ChangeLog
> +++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
> +2020-03-24  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
> +
> +       PR binutils/25717
> +       * elf-bfd.h (elf_obj_tdata): Change num_group to unsigned int.
> +
>  2020-03-24  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
>
>         PR binutils/25708
> diff --git a/bfd/elf-bfd.h b/bfd/elf-bfd.h
> index c546b583b8..5f3a5cc04b 100644
> --- a/bfd/elf-bfd.h
> +++ b/bfd/elf-bfd.h
> @@ -1953,7 +1953,7 @@ struct elf_obj_tdata
>    struct sdt_note *sdt_note_head;
>
>    Elf_Internal_Shdr **group_sect_ptr;
> -  int num_group;
> +  unsigned int num_group;
>
>    /* Index into group_sect_ptr, updated by setup_group when finding a
>       section's group.  Used to optimize subsequent group searches.  */
> --
> 2.25.1
>

Hi Nick,

I'd like to backport it to 2.34 branch.

-- 
H.J.