The ELF header contains a start address, which is also sometimes
called the entry address. The 'objdump -x' output calls this field
the 'start address', while readelf calls it 'entry point address'.
The linker talks about setting the 'entry' point in its manual.
I've always thought of this field as the 'entry address', and so when
I recently wanted to know if objcopy could adjust this field I opened
up the manual and searched for 'entry', which found no hits.
I thought it would be useful (for people like me) if the description
of 'set-start' and 'adjust-start' in the objcopy manual mentioned the
word 'entry' to make it easier to find.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* doc/binutils.texi: Mention 'entry address' in the set-start and
adjust-start options descriptions.
* readelf.c (warn): New function - like elfcomm.c version but only
produces output if warnings are enabled.
(struct options): Add --lint and --enable-checks.
(usage): Add entry for --lint.
(parse_args): Handle -L. If checks are enabled but no dumps have
been selected then enable all dumps.
(process_section_headers): Replace long if-then-else sequence with
a switch. Add warning messages for empty SHT_REL, SHT_RELA and
SHT_PROGBITS sections.
(process_file): Do not complain if the file is an archive and lint
mode has been enabled.
* elfcomm.c (error): Make the function weak.
(warn): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document the new feature.
* dwarf.h (report_leb_status): Add file name and line number
parameters. Include them in the diagnostic output.
(READ_ULEB): Pass file and line number to report_leb_status.
(READ_SLEB): Likewise.
* dwarf.c (read_and_print_leb128): Pass file and line number to
report_leb_status.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.exp: Add test of new feature.
* testsuite/binutils-all/zero-sec.s: New test source file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/zero-sec.r: Expected output from new
test.
I find this useful when needing to compare compiler output, where the
address of the instruction and the value of symbols results in
unwanted differences.
* objdump.c (no_addresses): New static var.
(usage): Print help for --no-addresses.
(long_options): Add --no-addresses entry.
(objdump_print_addr_with_sym, objdump_print_addr): Omit symbol address.
(disassemble_bytes): Don't print current line address, or reloc
address.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document objdump --no-addresses.
In commit 2b44a6a237 (" binutils: doc: make `make clean` clean more
things"), I moved the doc build artifacts to MOSTLYCLEANFILES, which
made them get removed by "make clean".
Because generating binutils.info requires makeinfo, and we do not want
to require makeinfo when building from the tarball, binutils.info should
not get removed by "make clean" (otherwise, it won't be included in the
tarball).
And to be consistent with other projects (e.g. ld and gas), we also want
to ship the built man pages in the tarball.
This patch puts back all these in MAINTAINERCLEANFILES, so that they are
bundled in the tarball, and only cleaned if you use "make
maintainer-clean".
Tested by building a source release and confirming they are present.
binutils/ChangeLog:
PR 25491
* doc/Makefile.am: Rename MOSTLYCLEANFILES to MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
binutils* objcopy.c (check_new_section_flags): New function. Reject the
SEC_COFF_SHARED flag if the target is not a COFF binary.
(copy_object): Call check_new_section_flags.
(setup_section): Likewise.
* doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Add a note that the 'share' section
flag cannot be applied to ELF binaries.
bfd * elf.c (_bfd_elf_set_section_contents): Replace call to abort
with error messages and failure return values.
binutils* objdump.c (visualize_jumps, color_output, extended_color_output)
(detected_jumps): New variables.
(usage): Add the new jump visualization options.
(option_values): Add new option value.
(long_options): Add the new option.
(jump_info_new, jump_info_free): New functions.
(jump_info_min_address, jump_info_max_address): Likewise.
(jump_info_end_address, jump_info_is_start_address): Likewise.
(jump_info_is_end_address, jump_info_size): Likewise.
(jump_info_unlink, jump_info_insert): Likewise.
(jump_info_add_front, jump_info_move_linked): Likewise.
(jump_info_intersect, jump_info_merge): Likewise.
(jump_info_sort, jump_info_visualize_address): Likewise.
(disassemble_jumps): New function - used to locate jumps.
(disassemble_bytes): Add ascii art generation.
(disassemble_section): Add scan to locate jumps.
(main): Parse the new visualization option.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document the new feature.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
opcodes * arm-dis.c (print_insn_arm): Fill in insn info fields for control
flow instructions.
(print_insn_thumb16, print_insn_thumb32): Likewise.
(print_insn): Initialize the insn info.
* i386-dis.c (print_insn): Initialize the insn info fields, and
detect jumps.
debuginfod is a lightweight web service that indexes ELF/DWARF
debugging resources by build-id and serves them over HTTP. This patch
enables objdump and readelf to query debuginfod servers when they are
otherwise not able to find separate debug files. Binutils can be built
with debuginfod using the --with-debuginfod configure option. This
requires that libdebuginfod be installed and found at configure time.
debuginfod is packaged with elfutils, starting with version 0.178. For
more information see https://sourceware.org/elfutils/.
toplevel* config/debuginfod.m4: New file. Add macro AC_DEBUGINFOD. Adds
new configure option --with-debuginfod.
* configure: Regenerate.
* configure.ac: Call AC_DEBUGINFOD.
binutils* Makefile.am (readelf_LDADD, objdump_LDADD): Add libdebuginfod.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* NEWS: Update.
* config.in: Regenerate.
* configure: Regenerate.
* configure.ac: Call AC_DEBUGINFOD.
* doc/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* doc/binutils.texi: Add section on using binutils
with debuginfod.
* dwarf.c (debuginfod_fetch_separate_debug_info): New function.
Query debuginfod servers for the target debug file.
(load_separate_debug_info): Call
debuginfod_fetch_separate_debug_info if configured with
debuginfod.
(load_separate_debug_files): Add file argument to
load_separate_debug_info calls.
* dwarf.h (get_build_id): Add declaration.
* objdump.c (get_build_id): New function. Get build-id of file.
* readelf.c (get_build_id): Likewise.
* testsuite/binutils-all/debuginfod.exp: New tests.
* testsuite/binutils-all/linkdebug.s: Add .note.gnu.build-id
section.
* ar.c (open_output_file): Check for filename validity before
prefixing with output directory.
Display the constructed output filename if in verbose mode.
(extract_file): Let open_output_file display the filename.
llvm-objcopy and llvm-strip support an option --keep-section that
keeps some sections from being removed.
* objcopy.c (enum option_values): Add OPTION_KEEP_SECTION.
(SECTION_CONTEXT_KEEP): Define. Adjust other SECTION_CONTEXT macros.
(copy_usage): Describe --keep-section.
(strip_usage): Likewise.
(copy_main): Handle SECTION_CONTEXT_KEEP.
(strip_main): Likewise.
(is_strip_section_1): Likewise.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Add tests.
* testsuite/binutils-all/keep-section-1.d: New test driver file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/keep-section-2.d: Likewise.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document the new feature.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* ar.c (emum long option numbers): Declare. Use to provide
numerical values for long options.
(long_options): Add --output option.
(usage): Mention the --output option.
(open_output_file): New function. Create a filepath for an output
file and open it.
(extract_file): Use open_output_file().
(open_output_file):
* testsuite/binutils-all/ar.exp: Add a test of the new feature.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document the new feature.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
This patch extends "ar P" to allow creation of normal (as distinct
from thin) archives with full path names.
PR 452
PR 25104
bfd/
* archive.c (normalize): Return file unchanged when
BFD_ARCHIVE_FULL_PATH.
(_bfd_construct_extended_name_table): Pass abfd, the output
bfd, to normalize.
(_bfd_archive_bsd44_construct_extended_name_table): Likewise.
* bfd.c (struct bfd): Make flags a full flagword.
(BFD_ARCHIVE_FULL_PATH): Define.
* bfd-in2.h: Regenerate.
binutils/
* ar.c (write_archive): Set BFD_ARCHIVE_FULL_PATH.
* doc/binutils.texi (extract from archive): Mention
restrictions when extracting from archives with full paths.
(ar P): Update to current P support.
(ar -X32_64): Fix spelling.
The linker emits CTF into a single section named .ctf, which is a CTF
archive where the default member (itself named ".ctf", or simply NULL)
is the parent of all other members. Teach objdump to look for this by
default, rather than only trying to do it if a specific CTF parent
section was specified. (If no parent name is specified, we get the .ctf
member from the same section as everything else, which matches what the
linker generates.)
binutils/
* objdump.c (dump_ctf): Use the default CTF archive member as the
parent even when no parent section is specified.
(dump_ctf_archive_member): Only import from the parent
if this is not the default ".ctf" member.
We were only loading them when explicitly requested, which leads to
strings that point off into empty space (into the non-loaded "external"
ELF string table). Avoid this unfortunate consequence by loading the
strtab and symtab by default, unless a blank name is given.
binutils/
* readelf.c (dump_ctf_symtab_name): Give default value.
(dump_ctf_strtab_name): Likewise.
(dump_section_as_ctf): Allow for the null string.
PR 24942
* objcopy.c (copy_usage): Update description of
--set-section-alignment.
(copy_main): Interpret numeric argument of --set-section-alignment
as a byte alignment, not a power of two alignment.
* doc/binutils.texi: Update description of
--set-section-alignment.
* testsuite/binutils-all/set-section-alignment.d: New test.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run the new test.
There is a bunch of things left over after a `make clean` in the doc
directory. This patch changes the Makefile so that everything built by
make is cleaned:
- man pages (the man_MANS variable)
- cxxfilt.man
- binutils.info
I am not sure why the last one was in MAINTAINERCLEANFILES. It's
generated from binutils.texi using makeinfo, and it's not particularly
long to build, so I don't see why it shouldn't be cleaned like the other
files.
Note: with my automake 1,15.1 (built from source), I get a spurious diff
in Makefile.in, where the
runstatedir = @runstatedir@
line gets removed. I am not sure why, but I haven't included it.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* doc/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Clean all man pages,
cxxfilt.man and binutils.info.
(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
This variable doesn't exist (it evaluates to nothing).
It was introduced in
commit 42ecbf5eda
Author: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Date: Sun May 15 18:19:45 2005 +0000
And removed in
commit c428fa83c2
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Mar 15 14:17:20 2007 +0000
Note: with my automake 1,15.1 (built from source), I get a spurious diff
in Makefile.in, where the
runstatedir = @runstatedir@
line gets removed. I am not sure why, but I haven't included it.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* doc/Makefile.am: Remove references to binutils_TEXINFOS.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
The `install-data-local: install-info` part: the comment refers to when
the Makefile had the cygnus option. It no longer uses that, so the info
file should get installed without that rule. I verified that `make
install` still installed $(prefix)/share/info/binutils.info.
The `DISTCLEANFILES` part: the comment talks about Automake 1.9, we are
using 1.15.1, which doesn't appear to have this problem. binutils.info
is built fine without this snippet.
Note: with my automake 1,15.1 (built from source), I get a spurious diff
in Makefile.in, where the
runstatedir = @runstatedir@
line gets removed. I am not sure why, but I haven't included it.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* doc/Makefile.am (install-data-loca): Remove target.
(DISTCLEANFILES): Remove variable.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
I get some spurious changes when running autoconf/automake for various
projects in the tree. This is likely because they were generated using
distro-patched tools last time.
I ran `autoreconf -f` in the various automake projects of the
binutils-gdb tree, and this is the result. The tools I am using have
been compiled from source, from the upstream release.
bfd/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
gas/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
gold/ChangeLog:
* testsuite/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
gprof/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
ld/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
opcodes/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
PR 24931
* objdump.c (source_comment): New static variable.
(option_values): Add OPTION_SOURCE_COMMENT.
(long_opions): Add --source-comment.
(print_line): If source comment is set, use it as a prefix to the
source code line.
(main): Handle OPTION_SOURCE_COMMENT.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document the new option.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objdump.exp (test_objdump_S): Add tests
of the -S and --source-comment options.
PR 24777
* doc/binutils.texi: Ensure consistent formating of title strings
for man pages. Extend the title of the size man page to be more
informative.
Revert:
binutls 2019-05-29 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* configure.ac (LIBCTF): Export. Set to empty for non-ELF based
targets.
(HAVE_LIBCTF): Define if libctf support is available.
* Makefile.am (LIBCTF): Set value to @LIBCTF@.
* objdump.c: Make CTF code conditional upon HAVE_LIBCTF being
defined.
* readelf.c: Likewise.
* configure: Regenerate.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* config.in: Regenerate.
top 2019-05-29 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* configure.ac (noconfigdirs): Add libctf if the target does not use
the ELF file format.
* configure: Regenerate.
top * configure.ac (noconfigdirs): Add libctf if the target does not use
the ELF file format.
* configure: Regenerate.
binutils* configure.ac (LIBCTF): Export. Set to empty for non-ELF based
targets.
(HAVE_LIBCTF): Define if libctf support is available.
* Makefile.am (LIBCTF): Set value to @LIBCTF@.
* objdump.c: Make CTF code conditional upon HAVE_LIBCTF being
defined.
* readelf.c: Likewise.
* configure: Regenerate.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* config.in: Regenerate.
This introduces CTF support for objdump and readelf. objdump has the
following new arguments:
--ctf=SECTION: display CTF in the given SECTION
--ctf-parent=SECTION: name of CTF section that is the parent of this section
readelf has the above, and these two as well:
--ctf-symbols=SECTION: name of symbol table section (optional)
--ctf-strings=SECTION: name of string table section (optional)
(objdump can always use BFD machinery to determine the applicable string
and symbol tables automatically, so these arguments are unnecessary.)
Nearly all the work is done by the ctf_dump machinery in libctf: most of
the remaining work is option-processing and section-reading, and thus is
different for objdump and readelf: the minimal amount of similar code
remaining is, in my view, too small to share, particularly given that
objdump uses ctf_bfdopen() and readelf uses ctf_simple_open() since it
doesn't have a bfd.
I am not particularly satisfied with the way resources are freed in
either of these (I was forced to do it at the top level, for lack of
anywhere else to free resources allocated during option processing), but
I can't see any better way to do it without introducing new
infrastructure for no other purpose.
There are essentially arbitrary ordering changes to the Makefile.in's
order of libtool-related stuff that I can't get rid of, but they have no
semantic effect. (It is possible that some hunks of these changes could
be dropped, but that seems a bit risky to me.)
binutils/
* objdump.c (ctf-api.h): New include.
(dump_ctf_section_info): New variable.
(dump_ctf_section_name): Likewise.
(usage): Describe new options.
(enum option_values): Add OPTION_CTF and OPTION_CTF_PARENT.
(main): Use them to add --ctf and --ctf-parent.
(read_section_stabs): Add new parameter, entsize_ptr.
(find_stabs_section): Adjust accordingly.
(make_ctfsect): New.
(dump_ctf_indent_lines): New.
(dump_ctf_archive_member): New.
(dump_ctf): New.
(dump_bfd): Call it. Free resources afterwards.
* readelf.c (ctf-api.h): New include.
(CTF_DUMP): New.
(static bfd_boolean do_ctf): Likewise.
(dump_ctf_parent_name): Likewise.
(dump_ctf_symtab_name): Likewise.
(dump_ctf_strtab_name): Likewise.
(OPTION_CTF_DUMP): Likewise.
(OPTION_CTF_PARENT): Likewise.
(OPTION_CTF_SYMBOLS): Likewise.
(OPTION_CTF_STRINGS): Likewise.
(options): Add them.
(usage): Likewise.
(parse_args): Handle the new options, requesting CTF_DUMP.
(process_section_contents): Handle CTF_DUMP.
(shdr_to_ctf_sect): New.
(dump_ctf_indent_lines): New.
(dump_section_as_ctf): New.
(main): Free resources.
* Makefile.am (LIBCTF): New variable.
(objdump_DEPENDENCIES): Use it.
(readelf_DEPENDENCIES): Likewise.
(objdump_LDADD): Likewise.
(readelf_LDADD): Likewise.
* aclocal.m4: Regenerated.
* Makefile.in: Likewise.
* doc/binutils.texi (objdump): Document the new options.
(readelf): Likewise.
* doc/ctf.options.texi: New.
* doc/Makefile.in: Regenerated.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
PR 19921
binutils* objcopy.c: Add new option --verilog-data-width. Use it to set
the value of VerilogDataWidth.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document the new option.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run tests of new option.
* testsuite/binutils-all/verilog-1.hex: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/verilog-2.hex: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/verilog-4.hex: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/verilog-8.hex: New file.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
bfd * verilog.c: (VerilogDataWidth): New variable.
(verilog_write_record): Emit bytes in VerilogDataWidth bundles.
* objcopy.c (strip_main): Do not enable note merging by default if
just stripping debug or dwo information.
* doc/binutils.texi (strip): Update documentation.
* objdump.c (sym_ok): New function.
(find_symbol_for_address): Use new function.
(disassemble_section): Compare sections by name, not pointer.
(dump_dwarf): Move code to initialise byte_get pointer and iterate
over separate debug files from here to ...
(dump_bfd): ... here. Add parameter indicating that a separate
debug info file is being dumped. For main file, pull in the
symbol tables from all separate debug info files.
(display_object): Update call to dump_bfd.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document extened behaviour of the
--dwarf=follow-links option.
* NEWS: Mention this new feature.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objdump.WK2: Update expected output.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objdump.exp (test_follow_debuglink): Add
options and dump file parameters.
Add extra test.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objdump.WK3: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.exp: Change expected output for
readelf -wKis test.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.wKis: New file.
PR 23843
* dwarf.h (struct separate_info): New structure for containing
information on separate debug info files.
* dwarf.c (struct dwo_info): New structure for containing dwo
links.
(first_dwo_info): Chain of dwo_info structures.
(first_separate_file): Chain of separate_info structures.
(separate_debug_file, separate_debug_filename): Delete.
(fetch_alt_indirect_string): Scan all separate debug info files
for the requested string.
(add_dwo_info): New function.
(add_dwo_name): New function.
(add_dwo_dir): New function.
(add_dwo_id: New function.
(free_dwo_info): New function.
(read_and_display_attr_value): Store DWO data using the new
functions.
(load_debug_section_with_follow): If necessary, scan the list of
separate debug info files for the requested section.
(add_separate_debug_file): New function.
(load_separate_debug_info): Call add_separate_debug_file to store
the information on the newly loaded file.
(load_dwo_file): Likewise.
(load_separate_debif_file): Rename to load_separate_debug_files.
Change return type to boolean. If following links then attempt to
load all separate debug info files, not just the first one.
(free_debug_memory): Release memory in dwo_info and separate_info
chains.
* objdump.c (dump_dwarf): Iterate over all loaded debg info files.
* readelf.c (process_object): Likewise.
* doc/debug.options.texi: Update descriptions of links and
follow-links options.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objdump.WK2: Update expected output.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.k2: Likewise.
* NEWS: Announce the new feature.
The size tool currently defaults to berkeley format output. However,
this output format has a weird quirk, read-only data is counted
against the text sections, not the data sections.
The code offers no real explanation for why this is, but I'm reluctant
to change it for two reasons, first, I'm assuming it probably makes
sense in some case that I'm not thinking of (maybe a target where
sections are not marked executable, and so there's no distinction
between read-only data and code), and second, the code has been this
way for at least 20 years, I worry that changing things now might
cause more confusion than it solves.
This commit then introduces a new output format for the size tool,
this new format displays the results in a similar manor to the
berkeley format, but counts read-only data in the data column, and
only executable sections are counted in the text column.
Given that this is a brand new output format I've gone ahead and
simplified things a little, while the berkeley format displays the
total twice, once in decimal and once in hex, the new display format
just displays the total in decimal. Of course, there's still the
'--radix' option which can be used to display all the results in
hexadecimal or octal.
I've called the new format 'gnu', so '--format=gnu' or '-G' are used
to access it.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* size.c (berkeley_format): Delete.
(enum output_format): New enum.
(selected_output_format): New variable.
(usage): Update to mention GNU format.
(main): Update to extract options, and select format as needed.
Handle GNU format where needed.
(berkeley_sum): Renamed to...
(berkeley_or_gnu_sum): ...this, and updated to handle both formats.
(berkeley_format): Renamed to...
(berkeley_or_gnu_format): ...this, and updated to handle both
formats.
(print_sizes): Handle GNU format.
* doc/binutils.texi (size): Document new GNU format.
* testsuite/binutils-all/size.exp: Add test of extended
functionality.
* NEWS: Mention new functionality.
The example output from size in Berkeley format is out of date. The
columns are now displayed right aligned. This patch updates the
documentation to reflect reality.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* doc/binutils.texi (size): Update example output for Berkeley
format output.
* objdump.c (disassemble_section): When disassembling from a
symbol only stop at the next symbol if the original symbol was not
a function symbol. Otherwise continue disassembling until a new
function is reached.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objdump.exp: Add tests of extended
functionality.
* testsuite/binutils-all/disasm.s: New test source file.
PR 88409
include * demangle.h (DEMANGLE_RECURSION_LIMIT): Increase to 2048.
binutils* NEWS: Note that recursion limit has increased to 2048.
* doc/binutils.texi: Likewise.
This patch addresses the multitude of bug reports about resource exhaustion
in libiberty's name demangling code. It adds a limit to the amount of
recursion that is allowed, before an error is triggered. It also adds a
new demangling option to disable this limit. (The limit is enabled by
default).
PR 87681
PR 87675
PR 87636
PR 87335
libiberty * cp-demangle.h (struct d_info): Add recursion_limit field.
* cp-demangle.c (d_function_type): If the recursion limit is
enabled and reached, return with a failure result.
(d_demangle_callback): If the recursion limit is enabled, check
for a mangled string that is so long that there is not enough
stack space for the local arrays.
* cplus-dem.c (struct work): Add recursion_level field.
(demangle_nested_args): If the recursion limit is enabled and
reached, return with a failure result.
include * demangle.h (DMGL_RECURSE_LIMIT): Define.
(DEMANGLE_RECURSION_LIMIT): Prototype.
binutuils * addr2line.c (demangle_flags): New static variable.
(long_options): Add --recurse-limit and --no-recurse-limit.
(translate_address): Pass demangle_flags to bfd_demangle.
(main): Handle --recurse-limit and --no-recurse-limit options.
* cxxfilt.c (flags): Add DMGL_RECURSE_LIMIT.
(long_options): Add --recurse-limit and --no-recurse-limit.
(main): Handle new options.
* dlltool.c (gen_def_file): Include DMGL_RECURSE_LIMIT in flags
passed to cplus_demangle.
* nm.c (demangle_flags): New static variable.
(long_options): Add --recurse-limit and --no-recurse-limit.
(main): Handle new options.
* objdump.c (demangle_flags): New static variable.
(usage): Add --recurse-limit and --no-recurse-limit.
(long_options): Likewise.
(objdump_print_symname): Pass demangle_flags to bfd_demangle.
(disassemble_section): Likewise.
(dump_dymbols): Likewise.
(main): Handle new options.
* prdbg.c (demangle_flags): New static variable.
(tg_variable): Pass demangle_flags to demangler.
(tg_start_function): Likewise.
* stabs.c (demangle_flags): New static variable.
(stab_demangle_template): Pass demangle_flags to demangler.
(stab_demangle_v3_argtypes): Likewise.
(stab_demangle_v3_arg): Likewise.
* doc/binutuls.texi: Document new command line options.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* testsuite/config/default.exp (CXXFILT): Define if not already
defined.
(CXXFILTFLAGS): Likewise.
* testsuite/binutils-all/cxxfilt.exp: New file. Runs a few
simple tests of the cxxfilt program.
* objdump.c (long_options): Have the --disassemble option take an
optional argument.
(usage): Add description for the `symbol' argument to the
--disassemble option.
(disasm_sym): New file private variable.
(struct objdump_disasm_info): New field `symbol'.
(disassemble_section): Introduce `do_print' local variable
to control whether objdump displays the result of disassembling
for a symbol or not.
(main): Set `symbol' file private variable if the option argument
for the --disassemble option is given.
* doc/binutils.texi (objdump): Add description for the option
argument.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objdump.exp: Add tests of the -d and
--disassemble=<symbol> options.
* testsuite/binutils-all/bintest.s: Add more symbols and code.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.s: Update expected output.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.ss-64: Likewise.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.ss-mips: Likewise.
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.ss-tmips: Likewise.
Add --enable-x86-feature and --disable-x86-feature options to elfedit
to set and clear the IBT and SHSTK bits in program property in ELF
executables and shared objects.
binutils/
* doc/binutils.texi: Document --enable-x86-feature and
--disable-x86-feature options for elfedit.
* elfedit.c: Include "config.h" and <sys/mman.h>.
(enable_x86_features): New.
(disable_x86_features): Likewise.
(update_gnu_property): Likewise.
(elf_x86_feature): Likewise.
(process_file): Call update_gnu_property on ET_EXEC or ET_DYN
file.
(command_line_switch): Add OPTION_ENABLE_X86_FEATURE and
OPTION_DISABLE_X86_FEATURE.
(options): Add--enable-x86-feature and --disable-x86-feature.
(usage): Likewise.
(main): Handle OPTION_ENABLE_X86_FEATURE and
OPTION_DISABLE_X86_FEATURE.
ld/
* testsuite/config/default.exp (ELFEDIT): New.
* testsuite/ld-elf/linux-x86.exp (elfedit_test): New proc.
Run elfedit tests.
* testsuite/ld-elf/x86-feature-1a.rd: New file.
* testsuite/ld-elf/x86-feature-1b.rd: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/x86-feature-1c.rd: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/x86-feature-1d.rd: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/x86-feature-1e.rd: Likewise.
This is the result of an email thread starting here:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-09/msg00031.html
The main point of the thread is this observation:
* Supposing we had an object file with two globals, SomeGlobal and
SomeOtherGlobal, if one were to do "--globalize-symbol SomeGlobal
--keep-global-symbol SomeOtherGlobal", you might expect that both
SomeGlobal and SomeOtherGlobal are global in the output file... but it
isn't. Because --keep-global-symbol is set and doesn't include
SomeGlobal, SomeGlobal will be demoted to a local symbol. And because
the check to see if we should apply the --globalize-symbol flag checks
"flags" (the original flag set), and not "sym->flags", it decides not
to do anything, so SomeGlobal remains a local symbol. Although this is
a weird edge case, should this be changed so that --keep-global-symbol
implicitly keeps anything also specified via --globalize-symbol? (The
code seems technically correct with respect to the documentation, but
IMO the behavior is counter-intuitive).
binutils* objcopy.c (copy_main): Issue a fata error if the
--keep-global-symbol(s) and the --globalize-symbol(s) options are
used together.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document that the two options are
incompatible.
* testsuite/binutils-all/copy-5.d: New test.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run the new test.
BFD handles ELF relocation sections in an executable differently to
relocation sections in a relocatable object. For a relocatable
object, BFD carries the relocations as data associated with the
section to which they apply; The relocation section doesn't appear as
a separate section. For an executable, dynamic relocation sections do
appear as separate sections. This means that objcopy needs to use
different strategies when dealing with relocations.
When --remove-relocations was added to objcopy with commit
d3e5f6c8f1, objcopy lost the ability to remove dynamic relocation
sections such as .rela.plt from executables using the option
"--remove-section=.rela.plt". This patch reinstates that
functionality.
I thought it best to keep --remove-relocations as is, rather than
extending to handle dynamic relocations as per the patch in the PR,
because executables linked with --emit-relocs may have both dynamic
and non-dynamic relocations. In that case --remove-relocataions=* is
useful to remove all the non-dynamic relocations.
PR binutils/23611
* objcopy.c (handle_remove_section_option): Consider .rela and
.rel sections for stripping directly as well as attached to the
associated section they relocate.
* doc/binutils.texi (remove-relocations): Specify that this
option removes non-dynamic relocation sections.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp
(objcopy_remove_relocations_from_executable): New test.
Binutils documentation uses a mix of spelling for the compound word
"command-line X". According to [1]:
"Sometimes compound words are written separately (nail polish),
sometimes with a hyphen (short-sighted) and sometimes as one word
(eyelashes). Often new compounds are written as two separate words and,
as they become more familiar, they are either connected with a hyphen
(-) or made into one word."
I think command-line X is common enough in our industry that the two
workds command and line should be connected. Since command-line is more
common than commandline, I propose to update binutils documentation to
consistently use "command-line" when this is used as an adjective to a
noun (eg. command-line argument, command-line switch, command-line
option and command-line flag). I've left occurences of "the command
line" as is. I've also left gdb, sim and readline alone and have only
touched public documentation (texi and NEWS files).
[1]
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/word-formation/compounds
2018-07-02 Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com>
bfd/
* doc/bfdint.texi: Use command-line consistently when used in a
compount word.
* doc/bfdsumm.texi: Likewise.
binutils/
* NEWS: Use command-line consistently when used in a compount word.
* doc/binutils.texi: Likewise and fix trailing whitespace on same
line.
gas/
* NEWS: Use command-line consistently when used in a compount word.
* doc/as.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-aarch64.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-alpha.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-arc.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-arm.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-avr.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-bfin.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-cris.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-epiphany.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-i386.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-ia64.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-lm32.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-m32r.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-m68k.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-mips.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-mmix.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-msp430.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-mt.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-nios2.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-ppc.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-pru.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-rl78.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-rx.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-tic6x.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-v850.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-vax.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-visium.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-xstormy16.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-xtensa.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-z80.texi: Likewise.
* doc/c-z8k.texi: Likewise.
* doc/internals.texi: Likewise.
gprof/
* gprof.texi: Use command-line consistently when used in a compount
word.
ld/
* NEWS: Use command-line consistently when used in a compount word.
* ld.texinfo: Likewise.
* ldint.texinfo: Likewise.
