[PATCH] PR30592 objcopy: allow --set-section-flags to add or remove SHF_X86_64_LARGE

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jun 27 2023, Fangrui Song via Binutils wrote:

> diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
> index 8f6d7d1adba..d6e21b11419 100644
> --- a/bfd/elf.c
> +++ b/bfd/elf.c
> @@ -1034,6 +1034,10 @@ _bfd_elf_make_section_from_shdr (bfd *abfd,
>    if ((hdr->sh_flags & SHF_EXCLUDE) != 0)
>      flags |= SEC_EXCLUDE;
>  
> +  if (get_elf_backend_data (abfd)->elf_machine_code == EM_X86_64)
> +    if ((hdr->sh_flags & SHF_X86_64_LARGE) != 0)
> +      flags |= SEC_ELF_LARGE;
> +
>    switch (elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_ident[EI_OSABI])
>      {
>        /* FIXME: We should not recognize SHF_GNU_MBIND for ELFOSABI_NONE,
> @@ -3351,6 +3355,8 @@ elf_fake_sections (bfd *abfd, asection *asect, void *fsarg)
>      }
>    if ((asect->flags & (SEC_GROUP | SEC_EXCLUDE)) == SEC_EXCLUDE)
>      this_hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_EXCLUDE;
> +  if (asect->flags & SEC_ELF_LARGE)
> +    this_hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_X86_64_LARGE;

Doesn't that need to be conditional on EM_X86_64 as well?  I don't see
anything that blocks SEC_ELF_LARGE from being set on incompatible
objects.

> diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
> index 8c14d1121d9..4dd7b83aaa6 100644
> --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
> +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
> @@ -1740,13 +1740,14 @@ Set the flags for any sections matching @var{sectionpattern}.  The
>  @var{flags} argument is a comma separated string of flag names.  The
>  recognized names are @samp{alloc}, @samp{contents}, @samp{load},
>  @samp{noload}, @samp{readonly}, @samp{code}, @samp{data}, @samp{rom},
> -@samp{exclude}, @samp{share}, and @samp{debug}.  You can set the
> -@samp{contents} flag for a section which does not have contents, but it
> -is not meaningful to clear the @samp{contents} flag of a section which
> -does have contents--just remove the section instead.  Not all flags are
> -meaningful for all object file formats.  In particular the
> -@samp{share} flag is only meaningful for COFF format files and not for
> -ELF format files.
> +@samp{exclude}, @samp{share}, @samp{debug}, and @samp{large}.
> +You can set the @samp{contents} flag for a section which does not have
> +contents, but it is not meaningful to clear the @samp{contents} flag of a
> +section which does have contents--just remove the section instead.  Not all
> +flags are meaningful for all object file formats.  In particular the
> +@samp{share} flag is only meaningful for COFF format files and not for ELF
> +format files.  @samp{large} is an ELF x86-64 specific flag that corresponds to
> +SHF_X86_64_LARGE.

The last sentence needs to be rearranged so that it doesn't start with a
lower case word.

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