The objcopy and strip tools make use of the bfd library to manipulate
the state of the input file (to produce an output file). Within the
input file (for ELF at least), relocations are held within a section,
and so, if the user wanted to remove the relocations, but keep the
section to which the relocations would have been applied, it is tempting
to think that specifying the name of a relocation section to objcopy's
--remove-section option might do what you want, for example:
objcopy --remove-section=.rela.text input.elf output.elf
However, this does not work. The reason is that when the input file is
loaded, relocations are not managed as sections, but are, instead,
loaded as data associated with the section to which the relocations
would be applied. In our example above the relocations in '.rela.text'
are held as data on the section '.text' once 'input.elf' is loaded.
One task that objcopy and strip do is copy the relocations from the
input file to the output file if the section is also being copied from
the input file to the output file.
This commit adds a new command line option for objcopy and strip,
--remove-relocations, which can be used to remove the relocations, while
keeping the section that the relocations would have been applied to, for
example:
objcopy --remove-relocations=.text input.elf output.elf
in this case the section '.text' will appear in both 'input.elf' and
'output.elf', but any relocations in 'input.elf' that apply to '.text'
will not be present in 'output.elf'.
I have also added a special case to the handling of --remove-section
that spots if a user tries to remove a relocation section (currently
this is done by spotting the '.rela.' or '.rel.' prefix) and forwards
the request to --remove-relocations.
As with --remove-section and --only-section the --remove-relocations
option supports the '!' prefix on the section-patterns it takes to allow
for sections to be specifically not matched.
There are tests for all the new functionality.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Document 'remove-relocations'.
(strip): Likewise.
* objcopy.c (SECTION_CONTEXT_REMOVE_RELOCS): Define.
(enum command_line_switch): Add 'OPTION_REMOVE_RELOCS'.
(struct option strip_options): Add 'remove-relocations'.
(struct option copy_options): Likewise.
(copy_usage): Likewise.
(strip_usage): Likewise.
(handle_remove_relocations_option): New function.
(discard_relocations): New function.
(handle_remove_section_option): New function.
(copy_relocations_in_section): Use discard_relocations.
(strip_main): Use handle_remove_section_option for
'remove-section', and handle 'remove-relocations' option.
(copy_main): Likewise.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run new tests.
* testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-01.d: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-01.s: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-02.d: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-03.d: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-04.d: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-05.d: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-06.d: New file.
For symbol matching, prefixing a pattern with '!' will indicate a
non-matching pattern, however, this is not the case for section
patterns. As a result it is not possible to say "apply this action to
all sections except ...".
With this commit the objcopy and strip tools now support '!' prefix for
section patterns, so we can say:
objcopy --remove-section="*" --remove-section="!.text*"
Which will remove all sections, except those matching the pattern
'.text*'.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* objcopy.c (find_section_list): Handle section patterns starting
with '!' being a non-matching pattern.
* doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Give example of using '!' with
--remove-section and --only-section.
(strip): Give example of using '!' with --remove-section.
* testsuite/binutils-all/data-sections.s: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/only-section-01.d: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/remove-section-01.d: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run new tests.
* NEWS: Mention new feature.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp
(objcopy_test_without_global_symbol): Expect this test to fail on
the AArch64 and ARM targets, since they preserve their mapping
symbols.
Some MIPS targets use a named section symbol rather than a symbol with
no name as is used with most ELF targets. When renaming sections, the
named section symbol needs to be renamed too.
Rather than fix this bug, I'd originally intended to just correct the
xfail added recently for update-1.o vs update4.o in update-section.exp,
using the same set of targets for the localize-hidden-1 mips xfail.
I'd extracted that target test into a new function, is_bad_symtab. It
turns out to be useful in readelf.exp too.
bfd/
* config.bfd: Delete mips vxworks patterns matched earlier.
Combine mips*-*-none with mips*-*-elf*.
binutils/
* objcopy.c (find_section_rename): Forward declare. Remove
ibfd and sec_ptr param. Add old_name param. Allow for NULL
returned_flags. Move read of section name and flags to..
(setup_section): ..here. Update find_section_rename call.
(filter_symbols): Rename section symbols for renamed sections.
(copy_object): Call filter_symbols when renamed sections.
* testsuite/lib/binutils-common.exp (is_bad_symtab): New.
* testsuite/binutils-all/update-section.exp: Revert 96037eb0
mips xfail.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp (copy_executable): Use
is_bad_symtab.
(localize-hidden-1): xfail if is_bad_symtab.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.exp: Use is_bad_symtab to select
between mips/tmips.
* testsuite/binutils-all/ar.exp: Skip tests for Alpha target.
Skip bfdtest1 tests for tic30 target.
* testsuite/binutils-all/arm/objdump.exp: Skip for aout arm
target.
* testsuite/binutils-all/compress.exp: Expect some tests to fail
on the nds32.
* testsuite/binutils-all/copy-3.d: Skip for go32 targets.
* testsuite/binutils-all/copy-4.d: Skip for AIX and linuxecoff
targets.
* testsuite/binutils-all/nm.exp: Treat beos based targets as ELF
targets.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Only run reverse bytes tests
if the bintest.o file was created. Use the
get_standard_section_names proc to get the name of the data
section.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objdump.exp: Update regexps to allow for
RX section names.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.exp: Use
get_standard_section_names proc to get the name of the data
section.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.r: Allow for non standard text
section names.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.s: Update regexps for tilepro.
* testsuite/binutils-all/size.exp: Allow for non standard section
names.
* testsuite/binutils-all/update-section.exp: Expect comapre 1vs4
to fail on mips targets.
* testsuite/lib/utils-lib.exp (default_binutils_run): Use
get_standard_section_names proc.
(run_dump_test): Likewise.
(proc get_standard_section_names): New proc.
Correct a regression introduced with commit 685080f210 ("Adds support
for generating notes in V850 binaries.") which replaced rather than
extending the call to `_bfd_elf_copy_private_bfd_data' with
`v850_elf_copy_private_bfd_data'. Consequently ELFOSABI_GNU marking is
not propagated to output by `objcopy' from objects containing
STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbols.
bfd/
* elf32-v850.c (v850_elf_copy_notes): New function, factored out
from...
(v850_elf_copy_private_bfd_data): ... here. Call the new
function and `_bfd_elf_copy_private_bfd_data'.
binutils/
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Don't skip the `strip-10'
test for the V850.
The HAS_RELOC bit should be cleared when relocations are removed from
relocatable files.
bfd/
PR binutils/19547
* elf.c (assign_section_numbers): Clear HAS_RELOC if there are
no relocations in relocatable files.
binutils/
PR binutils/19547
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp
(objcopy_test_without_global_symbol): New proc.
Run objcopy_test_without_global_symbol.
* testsuite/binutils-all/pr19547.c: New file.
PR binutils/19104
binutils * objcopy.c (command_line_switch): Add OPTION_ADD_SYMBOL.
(copy_options): Add add-symbol.
(copy_usage): Likewise.
(parse_symflags): New function.
(need_sym_before): New function.
(create_new_symbol): New function.
(filter_symbols): Add code to insert new symbols.
(copy_main): Process OPTION_ADD_SYMBOL.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document new feature.
* NEWS: Add note about the new feature.
tests * binutils-all/add-symbol.d: New test.
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run the new test.
The main aim of this patch is to perform more objcopy tests when we
can build executables but not run them. ie. non-native with cross
compiler available.
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Delete trailing whitespace. Use
"string equal" rather than "string match" when making simple
string comparisons. Revert 2008-07-08 host_triplet checks.
Perform non-run tests when we can build executable.
(strip_executable, strip_executable_with_saving_a_symbol): Move
run test later. Take extra param on whether to perform run test.
Update callers.
(keep_debug_symbols_and_test_copy): Delete unused vars.
We can't use the output section size to copy input section since
--interleave will shrink the output section. Instead, we change
bfd_convert_section_contents to return the updated input section
size. When we do that, we don't need to adjust the output section
size to skip gap fills.
bfd/
PR binutils/19020
* bfd.c (bfd_convert_section_contents): Add ptr_size parameter.
* bfd-in2.h: Regenerated.
binutils/
PR binutils/19020
* objcopy.c (copy_object): Don't adjust the output section size
when copying from input sections.
(copy_section): Use input section size for the copy. Get the
updated section size from bfd_convert_section_contents.
binutils/testsuite/
PR binutils/19020
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run pr19020a and pr19020b.
* lib/utils-lib.exp (run_dump_test): Support binary input.
* binutils-all/pr19020.in: New file.
* binutils-all/pr19020a.d: Likewise.
* binutils-all/pr19020b.d: Likewise.
When copying the sh_link and sh_info fields in stripped section headers,
we also check if the sh_type, sh_flags, /sh_addralign and sh_entsize
fields of the output section match the output. Since --only-keep-debug
turns all non-debug sections into SHT_NOBITS sections, the output
SHT_NOBITS type matches any input type.
bfd/
PR binutils/18785
* elf.c (_bfd_elf_copy_private_bfd_data): When copying the
sh_link and sh_info fields in stripped section headers, we also
check if the sh_type, sh_flags, /sh_addralign and sh_entsize
fields of the output section match the output. Since
--only-keep-debug turns all non-debug sections into SHT_NOBITS
sections, the output SHT_NOBITS type matches any input type.
binutils/testsuite/
PR binutils/18785
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run strip-12.
* binutils-all/strip-12.d: New file.
* binutils-all/strip-12.s: Likewise.
When using options such as --localize-symbol, --globalize-symbol, etc,
along with the --wildcard option, prefixing a symbol name with '!'
should provide non-matching behaviour, as example the following example
is given in the manual:
--wildcard --weaken-symbol !foo --weaken-symbol fo*
which should weaken all symbols matching the pattern 'fo*', but not the
symbol 'foo'.
However, this currently does not work, the current logic will waken all
symbols matching the pattern 'fo*' AND all symbols that are not 'foo'.
The symbol 'foo' is covered by the first condition, and so is weakened,
while, other symbols, for example 'bar' will match the second condition,
and so be weakened.
This patch adjusts the logic so that a pattern prefixed with '!'
specifically DOES NOT apply the relevant change to any matching symbols,
instead of applying the change to all non-matching symbols. So this:
--weaken-symbol !foo
will ensure that the symbol 'foo' is not weakened, but says nothing
about symbols that are not 'foo'. As a result, a pattern prefixed with
'!' now only makes sense when used alongside a more wide ranging
wildcard pattern.
This change should make the wildcard matching feature more useful, with
no overall loss of functionality. The example given in the manual,
weaken all symbols matching 'fo*' except 'foo' can now be achieved, but
so too can more complex examples, such as weaken all symbols matching
'fo*' except 'foo', 'foa', and 'fob', like this:
--wildcard --weaken-symbol !foo \
--weaken-symbol !foa \
--weaken-symbol !fob \
--weaken-symbol fo*
Under the previous scheme, something as symbols as, weaken all symbols
except 'foo' could have been achieved with this:
--weaken-symbol !foo
however, this will no longer work. To achieve the same result under the
new scheme this is now required:
--weaken-symbol !foo --weaken-symbol *
binutils/ChangeLog:
* objcopy.c (is_specified_symbol_predicate): Don't stop at first
match. Non-match rules set found to FALSE.
binutils/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run new symbol tests.
(objcopy_test_symbol_manipulation): New function.
* binutils-all/symbols-1.d: New file.
* binutils-all/symbols-2.d: New file.
* binutils-all/symbols-3.d: New file.
* binutils-all/symbols-4.d: New file.
* binutils-all/symbols.s: New file.
bfd * elf.c (_bfd_elf_copy_private_bfd_data): Copy the sh_link and
sh_info fields of sections whose type has been changed to
SHT_NOBITS.
bin * doc/binutils.texi: Document that the --only-keep-debug option
to strip and objcopy preserves the section headers of stripped
sections.
tests * binutils-all/objcopy.exp (keep_debug_symbols_and_check_links):
New proc. Checks that debug-info-only binaries retain the
sh_link field in stripped sections.
bfd * elf32-v850.c (v850_set_note): New function. Creates a Renesas
style note entry.
(v850_elf_make_note_section): New function. Creates a note
section.
(v850_elf_create_sections): New function. Create a note section
if one is not already present.
(v850_elf_set_note): New function. Adds a note to a bfd.
(v850_elf_copy_private_bfd_data): New function. Copies V850
notes.
(v850_elf_merge_notes): New function. Merges V850 notes.
(print_v850_note): New function. Displays a V850 note.
(v850_elf_print_notes): New function. Displays all notes attached
to a bfd.
(v850_elf_merge_private_bfd_data): Call v850_elf_merge_notes.
(v850_elf_print_private_bfd_data): Call v850_elf_print_notes.
(v850_elf_fake_sections): Set the type of the V850 note section.
* bfd-in.h (v850_elf_create_sections): Add prototype.
(v850_elf_set_note): Add prototype.
* bfd-in2.h: Regenerate.
binutils* readelf.c (get_machine_flags): Remove deprecated V850 machine
flags.
(get_v850_section_type_name): New function. Handles V850 special
sections.
(get_section_type_name): Add support for V850.
(get_v850_elf_note_type): New function. Returns the name of a
V850 note.
(print_v850_note): New function. Prints a V850 note.
(process_v850_notes): New function. Prints V850 notes.
(process_note_sections): Add support for V850.
binutils/testsute
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Skip the strip-10 test for the V850.
gas * config/tc-v850.c (soft_float): New variable.
(v850_data_8): New variable.
(md_show_usage): Add -msoft-float/-mhard-float.
(md_parse_option): Likewise.
(md_begin): Set the default value of soft_float.
(v850_md_end): New function. Creates a note section.
* config/tc-v850.h (md_end): Define.
* doc/c-v850.texi: Document -msoft-float/-mhard-float.
gas/testsuite
* gas/elf/elf.exp: Add special version of the section2 test for
the V850.
* gas/elf/section2.e-v850: New file.
include/elf
* v850.h (EF_RH850_SIMD): Delete deprecated flag.
(EF_RH850_CACHE): Likewise.
(EF_RH850_MMU): Likewise.
(EF_RH850_DATA_ALIGN8): Likewise.
(SHT_RENESAS_IOP): Fix typo in name.
(SHT_RENESAS_INFO): Define.
(V850_NOTE_SECNAME): Define.
(SIZEOF_V850_NOTE): Define.
(V850_NOTE_NAME): Define.
(enum v850_notes): New enum.
(NUM_V850_NOTES): Define.
ld/ChangeLog
2015-02-24 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* Makefile.am (ev850.c): Add dependency upon
$(srcdir)/emultempl/v850elf.em.
(ev850_rh850.c): Likewise.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* emultempl/v850elf.em: New file.
* emulparams/v850.sh (EXTRA_EM_FILE): Define.
* emulparams/v850_rh850.sh (EXTRA_EM_FILE): Define.
* scripttempl/v850.sc: Add .note.renesas section.
* scripttempl/v850_rh850.sc: Likewise.
ld/testsuite
* ld-elf/extract-symbol-1sec.d: Expect to fail on the V850.
Since 2006, commit d270463e9, _bfd_elf_copy_private_section_data has
copied over SHF_MASKOS and SHF_MASKPROC flags. That makes the buggy
code in sh_elf64_copy_private_data_internal redundant.
bfd/
PR 17755
* elf64-sh64.c (sh_elf64_copy_private_data_internal): Delete code
copying SHF_SH5_ISA32.
binutils/testsuite/
* binutils-all/strip-11.d: New test.
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run it.
Non-EABI ARM targets set OSABI to ARM regardless of whether or not GNU
features have been used which causes this test to fail.
binutils/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2014-07-10 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Disable the strip-10 test on
non-EABI ARM configurations.
2013-11-27 Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@imgtec.com>
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Consider mips-mti-elf the same as
mips-sde-elf
* binutils-all/readelf.exp: Likewise
gas/testsuite/
2013-11-27 Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@imgtec.com>
* gas/mips/mips.exp: Consider mips-mti-elf the same as mips-sde-elf
ld/testsuite/
2013-11-27 Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@imgtec.com>
* ld-mips-elf/mips-elf.exp: Consider mips-mti-elf the same as
mips-sde-elf
(objdump -WL): Skip this test on MCore, Moxie and OpenRisc
targets.
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp (localize-hidden-1): Expect this test
to fail on MIPS based targets.
binutils/
2011-09-15 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
PR binutils/13180
* objcopy.c (is_strip_section_1): New.
(is_strip_section): Use it. Remove the group section if all
members are removed.
binutils/testsuite/
2011-09-15 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
PR binutils/13180
* binutils-all/group-6.d: New.
* binutils-all/group-6.s: Likewise.
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run group-6 for ELF targrts.
* binutils-all/copy-2.d: Update not-target list.
* binutils-all/note-1.d: Don't run on h8300.
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Don't run strip-10 on msp or hpux.
(objcopy_test): Remove h8300-rtems from xfails.
of more than one byte at a time.
(copy_width): New variable.
(copy_options): Add --interleave-width.
(copy_section): When interleaving copy in units of copy_width
bytes.
(copy_main): Parse the new option.
* doc/binutils: Document the new option.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Add test of new --interleave-width
option.
* objcopy.c (copy_main): Rewrite OPTION_ADD_SECTION code to work
with non-ordinary files like /dev/null.
binutils/testsuite/:
* lib/utils-lib.exp (run_dump_test): Permit option values to use
$srcdir to refer to the source directory.
* binutils-all/add-section.d: New test.
* binutils-all/add-empty-section.d: New test.
* binutils-all/empty-file: New test input file.
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run new tests.
