Do not dump the contents of SHT_NOBITS sections - they have no file space

assigned to their contents.

diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index 5705585..4806e9c 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-10-30  Marshall T. Vandegrift <llasram at wuli dot nu>
+
+       * readelf.c (dump_section): Do not dump the contents of SHT_NOBITS
+       sections - they have no file space assigned to their contents.
+
 2003-10-28  Segher Boessenkool  <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
 
        * readelf.c (dump_section): Don't display DEL characters.

diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index 629db76..fb8d80f 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -6055,7 +6055,7 @@ dump_section (Elf_Internal_Shdr *section, FILE *file)
 
   bytes = section->sh_size;
 
-  if (bytes == 0)
+  if (bytes == 0 || section->sh_type == SHT_NOBITS)
     {
       printf (_("\nSection '%s' has no data to dump.\n"),
              SECTION_NAME (section));