Re: Stripping empty sections

[Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>]

A few bugs.

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Alan Modra wrote:

> ld/testsuite/
> 	* ld-cris/pv32.s: Give expobj a size.

Why, here?  Previously it was an undefined symbol defined
elsewhere (see below).  Why does it have to have a size *here*?
Why doesn't that affect the test?

> Index: ld/testsuite/ld-cris/pv32.s
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/ld/testsuite/ld-cris/pv32.s,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -u -p -r1.1 pv32.s
> --- ld/testsuite/ld-cris/pv32.s	4 Nov 2004 15:04:05 -0000	1.1
> +++ ld/testsuite/ld-cris/pv32.s	7 Jul 2005 04:39:31 -0000
> @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ pfn:
>  .Lfe1:
>  	.size	pfn,.Lfe1-pfn
>
> +	.global	expobj
> +	.size	expobj,4
>  	.global dsofn
>  	.type	dsofn,@function
>  dsofn:

Mmph, why not in expdyn1.s, where it's defined?

> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/ld/testsuite/ld-mmix/sec-7m.d,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -p -r1.3 sec-7m.d
> --- ld/testsuite/ld-mmix/sec-7m.d	12 May 2003 05:45:38 -0000	1.3
> +++ ld/testsuite/ld-mmix/sec-7m.d	8 Jul 2005 03:26:07 -0000
> @@ -20,19 +20,19 @@ Sections:
>  Idx Name[ ]+Size[ ]+VMA[ ]+LMA[ ]+File off  Algn
>    0 \.text[ ]+0+4  0+  0+  0+  2\*\*2
>  [ ]+CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
> -  1 \.di           0+27ffb  2000000000000000  2000000000000000  0+  2\*\*2
> +  1 \.di +0+27ffb +0+4 +0+4 +0+ +2\*\*2

This whole section moved?  Is that right?  Hm, I don't set it to
writable anywhere in the input, so maybe moving it to the code
area (0... not 2...) is something that can be expected.  Still,
it subverts the original test which expected to get a (separate)
sequence of bytes in a new section, not .text.  Pretty please
fix, say in sec-7a.s.