freebsd-dev/contrib/binutils
Andriy Gapon 517d9fc653 binutils/ld: fix incorrect placement of __start_SECNAME in some cases
__start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME symbols are automatically generated
by ld for orphan sections, i.e. those not explicitely referenced by a
linker script.  The symbols are supposed to be placed correspondingly
at the start and the end of the section in output file.  In some cases
__start_SECNAME may be placed at the address after the end of the
previous section (if any) and before the start the section.  This
happens when following conditions are met:
1. the orphan section is found in more than one input file
2. the orphan section has different alignment requirements across input
files
3. the first instance of the section encountered doesn't have the
greatest alignment requirement
In these conditions resulting output section will be placed at address
after the end of the previous section aligned to the greatest alignment
requirement in the inputs, but __start_SECNAME will be placed at address
after the end of the previous section aligned to the alignment
requirement of the first input in which the section is encountered.

See commit message of r196118 for a concrete example of problems caused
by this bug.

The fix is to place __start_SECNAME inside the section and use ABSOLUTE
directive, rather than placing __start_SECNAME outside the section and
trying to guess address alignment.

This fix is in line with upstream binutils change/fix made between
versions 2.19 and 2.20 in revision of 1.307 ldlang.c.

MFC after:	3 weeks
2010-07-19 18:20:44 +00:00
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bfd Teach our toolchain how to generate 64-bit PowerPC binaries. This fixes 2010-07-10 02:29:22 +00:00
binutils readelf.1: remove duplicate -u/--unwind option description 2010-06-22 07:31:05 +00:00
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gas Add/improve mips64r2, Octeon, n32 and n64 support in the toolchain. 2010-06-02 11:06:03 +00:00
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ld binutils/ld: fix incorrect placement of __start_SECNAME in some cases 2010-07-19 18:20:44 +00:00
libiberty This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r175790, 2008-01-29 16:12:06 +00:00
opcodes Add/improve mips64r2, Octeon, n32 and n64 support in the toolchain. 2010-06-02 11:06:03 +00:00
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