* bfd/elfxx-mips.c (_bfd_mips_elf_fake_sections): Force SHF_MIPS_NOSTRIP on

   .debug_frame for Irix.

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index b42e0c9213b576cbb0cc81ae9b48b143e3eece92..b05c8eefe6aacbea058d8568efd7df55727977b4 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-11-07  Olivier Hainque  <[email protected]>
+
+       * bfd/elfxx-mips.c (_bfd_mips_elf_fake_sections): Force
+       SHF_MIPS_NOSTRIP on .debug_frame for Irix.
+
 2007-11-06  Alan Modra  <[email protected]>
 
        * elf64-ppc.c (ppc64_elf_check_relocs): Don't refcount tlsld_got here..

diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-mips.c b/bfd/elfxx-mips.c
index b0e8a62907dbcf5fc917dc79a02cada79a3a53dd..c571077fa63a0cf65887f2f6c47f387a76e7882c 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/elfxx-mips.c
+++ b/bfd/elfxx-mips.c
@@ -5672,7 +5672,15 @@ _bfd_mips_elf_fake_sections (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Shdr *hdr, asection *sec)
       hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_MIPS_NOSTRIP;
     }
   else if (CONST_STRNEQ (name, ".debug_"))
-    hdr->sh_type = SHT_MIPS_DWARF;
+    {
+      hdr->sh_type = SHT_MIPS_DWARF;
+
+      /* Irix facilities such as libexc expect a single .debug_frame
+        per executable, the system ones have NOSTRIP set and the linker
+        doesn't merge sections with different flags so ...  */
+      if (SGI_COMPAT (abfd) && CONST_STRNEQ (name, ".debug_frame"))
+       hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_MIPS_NOSTRIP;
+    }
   else if (strcmp (name, ".MIPS.symlib") == 0)
     {
       hdr->sh_type = SHT_MIPS_SYMBOL_LIB;