+2003-06-27 Thiemo Seufer <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
+
+ * elfxx-mips.c (_bfd_mips_elf_fake_sections): Remove non-default
+ relocation header setup.
+
2003-06-25 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
* elf32-ppc.c (ppc_elf_howto_table): Remove unnecessary cast.
hdr->sh_entsize = 8;
}
- /* The generic elf_fake_sections will set up REL_HDR using the
- default kind of relocations. But, we may actually need both
- kinds of relocations, so we set up the second header here.
-
- This is not necessary for the O32 ABI since that only uses Elf32_Rel
- relocations (cf. System V ABI, MIPS RISC Processor Supplement,
- 3rd Edition, p. 4-17). It breaks the IRIX 5/6 32-bit ld, since one
- of the resulting empty .rela.<section> sections starts with
- sh_offset == object size, and ld doesn't allow that. While the check
- is arguably bogus for empty or SHT_NOBITS sections, it can easily be
- avoided by not emitting those useless sections in the first place. */
- if (! SGI_COMPAT (abfd) && ! NEWABI_P(abfd)
- && (sec->flags & SEC_RELOC) != 0)
- {
- struct bfd_elf_section_data *esd;
- bfd_size_type amt = sizeof (Elf_Internal_Shdr);
-
- esd = elf_section_data (sec);
- BFD_ASSERT (esd->rel_hdr2 == NULL);
- esd->rel_hdr2 = (Elf_Internal_Shdr *) bfd_zalloc (abfd, amt);
- if (!esd->rel_hdr2)
- return FALSE;
- _bfd_elf_init_reloc_shdr (abfd, esd->rel_hdr2, sec, !sec->use_rela_p);
- }
+ /* The generic elf_fake_sections will set up REL_HDR using the default
+ kind of relocations. We used to set up a second header for the
+ non-default kind of relocations here, but only NewABI would use
+ these, and the IRIX ld doesn't like resulting empty RELA sections.
+ Thus we create those header only on demand now. */
return TRUE;
}