Highlights:
- Make sure that only TLS sections are sorted into TLS segment.
- Fixed multiple errors in "Section to Segment mapping".
- Man page updates
- ar improvements
- elfcopy: avoid filter_reloc uninitialized variable for rela
- elfcopy: avoid stripping relocations from static binaries
- readelf: avoid printing directory in front of absolute path
- readelf: add NT_FREEBSD_FEATURE_CTL FreeBSD note type
- test improvements
NOTES:
Some of these changes originated in FreeBSD and simply reduce diffs
between contrib and vendor.
ELF Tool Chain ar is not (currently) used in FreeBSD, and there are
improvements in both FreeBSD and ELF Tool Chain ar that are not in
the other.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
In out of memory scenarios (where one of these allocations failed but
other(s) did not), nm(1) could reference the uninitialized value of these
allocations (undefined behavior).
Always initialize any successful allocations as the most expedient
resolution of the issue. However, I would encourage upstream elftoolchain
contributors to clean up the error path to just abort immediately, rather
than proceeding sloppily when one allocation fails.
Reported by: Coverity
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Highlights of changes between r3490 and r3520:
- Improve C++ demangling
- Improve compatibility with Binutils tools wrt. error messages
- Handle additional types/sections/etc. in readelf and elfdump
- addr2line, cxxfilt: use setvbuf to set line buffering for filter use
PR: 218395
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Improvements include:
* Add support for reporting and handling a number of new constants in
various tools, including:
* CloudABI OSABI
* DT_TLSDESC_*
* i386, MIPS, SPARC and amd64 relocations
* C++ demangler bug fixes
* Man page updates
* Improved input validation in several tools
This update also reduces diffs against upstream as a number of fixes
included in upstream were previously cherry-picked into FreeBSD.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Some notable improvements include:
readelf:
- Add AArch64 relocation definitions.
- Report value of unknown relocation types.
elfcopy:
- Consider symbols with STB_GNU_UNIQUE binding as global symbols.
- Fixed support for VMA adjustment for loadable sections found
in relocatable objects.
- Handle nameless global symbols.
- Improve wildcard matching for !-prefixed symbols.
- Add PE/COFF support.
elfdump:
- Improve section type reporting.
- Add MIPS-specific section types.
This update also includes a significant number of bug fixes.
PR: 207091 [exp-run]
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Highlights:
- Fix man page markup, whitespace, and typos
- Fix sh_info of SHT_GROUP section to point to the correct string
- Improve validation in readelf and elfcopy/strip
- Handle DWARF 4's DW_AT_high_pc in addr2line
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This can occur when DW_AT_specification is used to refer to another DIE
that provides the actual DW_AT_name string. For example:
< 3><0x00000086> DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_name PrettyStackTraceEntry
...
< 1><0x00002cf4> DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_specification <0x00000086>
We will need to add support for DW_AT_specification, but in the interim
we should not segfault.
Obtained from: Elftoolchain (r3170)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation