[PATCH v11 18/25] OAv2 merge: translate GNU properties to Object Attributes v2 (and vice versa)

[Jan Beulich]

On 31.12.2025 00:05, Matthieu Longo wrote:
> Some input objects may contain inconsistencies, i.e. they might include
> GNU properties but lack the corresponding object attributes, or inversely.
> The later case is never produced by Gas, but the former can occur with
> older Gas versions that do not support object attributes.
> 
> To keep consistency during the merge process, each input object's GNU
> properties are translated into their object attributes equivalents (if
> they exists). Also, after object attributes have been merged at the file
> scope, they are translated back to GNU properties to keep the GNU
> properties merge process consistent. This final translation occurs before
> merging the input with the global merge accumulator (a.k.a. REF) and the
> global configuration (a.k.a FROZEN).
> 
> Note: the first parameter of translate_obj_attrs_to_gnu_props(), bfd *,
> should be 'const', but this implies that _bfd_elf_get_property() should
> also be constified, and this is out of scope.
> ---
>  bfd/elf-attrs.c    | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
>  bfd/elf-bfd.h      |  8 ++++++++
>  bfd/elfxx-target.h |  8 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Okay.

Jan