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[roger@metaphorics.com: [Patch] Fix section flags for pe-i386]
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- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 18:33:11 -0400
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:22:39 -0600 (MDT)
From: Roger Sayle <roger@metaphorics.com>
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Subject: [Patch] Fix section flags for pe-i386
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The bfd library currently thinks that the SEC_READONLY section flag is
not applicable to pe-i386 coff files, such as those used by cygwin. This
means that objects files created by binutils never have the READONLY flag
set for ".text" sections. This causes the Microsoft linker, LINK.EXE,
to issue warnings when linking cygwin object files and libraries with
native object files and libraries.
Warning LNK4078: multiple ".text" sections found with different
attributes.
The "obvious" patch is to allow SEC_READONLY section flag to be used on
pe-i386 and pei-i386 targets. This cures the warnings, and has been
tested on i586-pc-cygwin and i686-pc-cygwin with MSVC 5.0 and 6.0.
Just in case this flag actually affected behaviour, I also tested with
bootstraps of binutils and gcc, and built several local applications
and DLLs, both with and without the "-mno-cygwin" flag, on Windows95
and Windows ME. There were no regressions in several days of testing.
A one line bug fix shouldn't require a copyright assigment.
2001-04-13 Roger Sayle <roger@metaphorics.com>
* coff-i386.c (TARGET_SYM): SEC_READONLY is an applicable
section flag on pe-i386 targets.
*** bfd/coff-i386.c.orig Fri Apr 13 14:58:49 2001
- --- bfd/coff-i386.c Fri Apr 13 14:59:16 2001
***************
*** 1,6 ****
/* BFD back-end for Intel 386 COFF files.
Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
! 2000
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Cygnus Support.
- --- 1,6 ----
/* BFD back-end for Intel 386 COFF files.
Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
! 2000, 2001
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Cygnus Support.
***************
*** 576,582 ****
(SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_ALLOC | SEC_LOAD | SEC_RELOC /* section flags */
#ifdef COFF_WITH_PE
! | SEC_LINK_ONCE | SEC_LINK_DUPLICATES
#endif
| SEC_CODE | SEC_DATA),
- --- 576,582 ----
(SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_ALLOC | SEC_LOAD | SEC_RELOC /* section flags */
#ifdef COFF_WITH_PE
! | SEC_LINK_ONCE | SEC_LINK_DUPLICATES | SEC_READONLY
#endif
| SEC_CODE | SEC_DATA),
Roger
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Roger Sayle, E-mail: roger@metaphorics.com
Bioinformatics Group, Metaphorics, WWW: http://www.metaphorics.com/
Office 104, 441 Greg Avenue, Tel: (+1) 505-954-3281
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