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[PATCH 0/4] LD: Support fixed-size sections some psABIs may require
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>
- To: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: Vlad Ivanov <vlad@ivanov.email>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:56:15 +0000
- Subject: [PATCH 0/4] LD: Support fixed-size sections some psABIs may require
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Hi,
Following commit 58807c48a5a3 ("_bfd_mips_elf_final_link: Notify user
about wrong .reginfo size") I have decided to look into the issue again
and concluded that a better way to handle non-standard `.reginfo' (and
also `.MIPS.abiflags') section sizes will be to actually permit them and
then either truncate or pad out the resulting output section to the psABI
mandated size, giving people more flexibility in handling those sections.
While implementing that I realised the actual cause of the original issue
of the assertion failure triggering in `_bfd_mips_elf_final_link' was
generic linker relaxation code, which resets the output section size set
by the MIPS backend in `_bfd_mips_elf_always_size_sections', the handler
for the `bed->elf_backend_always_size_sections' backend method, as this is
called too early. But then it does appear to be the right place to do it.
So to address that I invented a new SEC_FIXED_SIZE section flag, which is
never set by generic code, but backends can use it to mark special psABI
sections whose size has to remain unchanged. I imagine there might be
other targets beyond the MIPS one who may have a use for it.
As there are no bits left for a new section flag I have to remove one
first, choosing one which has been unused since 2003, making this
submission a small patch series. The second change is actual support for
the SEC_FIXED_SIZE flag in the generic linker. The third is the MIPS
backend part to use it along with a number of test cases. Finally the
fourth change reverts the commit referred above as then the original
assertion can be placed back as the SEC_FIXED_SIZE arrangement is meant to
guarantee the size will be fixed at that point, as verified by the test
cases included with the second part.
See the descriptions of individual patches for additional details.
Maciej