Add code to detect and either handle or issue an error message for binaries

created by the DEC ALPHA compilers.

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index fea84de..65d1668 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2005-07-14  Daniel Marques  <marques@cs.cornell.edu>
+           Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+       * coff-alpha.c (alpha_ecoff_bad_format_hook): Detect compressed
+       Alpha binaries and issue a helpful error message.
+       (alpha_ecoff_swap_reloc_out): Increase maximum allowed internal
+       symbol index to 15 to allow for binaries produced by DEC
+       compilers.      
+
 2005-07-13  Steve Ellcey  <sje@cup.hp.com>
 
        * bfd.m4 (BFD_NEED_DECLARATION): Remove.

diff --git a/bfd/coff-alpha.c b/bfd/coff-alpha.c
index 444385e..19aeb96 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/coff-alpha.c
+++ b/bfd/coff-alpha.c
@@ -481,10 +481,16 @@ alpha_ecoff_bad_format_hook (abfd, filehdr)
 {
   struct internal_filehdr *internal_f = (struct internal_filehdr *) filehdr;
 
-  if (ALPHA_ECOFF_BADMAG (*internal_f))
-    return FALSE;
+  if (! ALPHA_ECOFF_BADMAG (*internal_f))
+    return TRUE;
 
-  return TRUE;
+  if (ALPHA_ECOFF_COMPRESSEDMAG (*internal_f))
+    (*_bfd_error_handler)
+      (_("%B: Cannot handle compressed Alpha binaries.\n"
+        "   Use compiler flags, or objZ, to generate uncompressed binaries."),
+       abfd);
+
+  return FALSE;
 }
 
 /* This is a hook called by coff_real_object_p to create any backend
@@ -603,8 +609,11 @@ alpha_ecoff_swap_reloc_out (abfd, intern, dst)
       size = intern->r_size;
     }
 
+  /* XXX FIXME:  The maximum symndx value used to be 14 but this
+     fails with object files prodiced by DEC's C++ compiler.
+     Where does the value 14 (or 15) come from anyway ?  */
   BFD_ASSERT (intern->r_extern
-             || (intern->r_symndx >= 0 && intern->r_symndx <= 14));
+             || (intern->r_symndx >= 0 && intern->r_symndx <= 15));
 
   H_PUT_64 (abfd, intern->r_vaddr, ext->r_vaddr);
   H_PUT_32 (abfd, symndx, ext->r_symndx);

diff --git a/include/coff/ChangeLog b/include/coff/ChangeLog
index 822beb1..c4ff60d 100644 (file)
--- a/include/coff/ChangeLog
+++ b/include/coff/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-07-14  Daniel Marques  <marques@cs.cornell.edu>
+
+       * alpha.h (ALPHA_ECOFF_COMPRESSEDMAG): Define.
+       * ecoff.h (ALPHA_MAGIC_COMPRESSED): Define.
+
 2005-05-10  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
        * Update the address and phone number of the FSF organization in

diff --git a/include/coff/alpha.h b/include/coff/alpha.h
index 3b00c92..7433938 100644 (file)
--- a/include/coff/alpha.h
+++ b/include/coff/alpha.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* ECOFF support on Alpha machines.
    coff/ecoff.h must be included before this file.
 
-   Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright 2001, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ struct external_filehdr
 #define ALPHA_ECOFF_BADMAG(x) \
   ((x).f_magic != ALPHA_MAGIC && (x).f_magic != ALPHA_MAGIC_BSD)
 
+#define ALPHA_ECOFF_COMPRESSEDMAG(x) \
+  ((x).f_magic == ALPHA_MAGIC_COMPRESSED)
+
 /* The object type is encoded in the f_flags.  */
 #define F_ALPHA_OBJECT_TYPE_MASK       0x3000
 #define F_ALPHA_NO_SHARED              0x1000

diff --git a/include/coff/ecoff.h b/include/coff/ecoff.h
index 4bd8a6c..d4d3fa5 100644 (file)
--- a/include/coff/ecoff.h
+++ b/include/coff/ecoff.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
    This does not include symbol information, found in sym.h and
    symconst.h.
 
-   Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
 /* Alpha magic numbers used in filehdr.  */
 #define ALPHA_MAGIC 0x183
 #define ALPHA_MAGIC_BSD 0x185
+/* A compressed version of an ALPHA_MAGIC file created by DEC's tools.  */
+#define ALPHA_MAGIC_COMPRESSED 0x188
 
 /* Magic numbers used in a.out header.  */
 #define ECOFF_AOUT_OMAGIC 0407 /* not demand paged (ld -N).  */