* ecoff.c (_bfd_ecoff_write_armap): give the symtab element a

	reasonable mode until "ar x" is smart enough to skip it (fixes
	gcc/libgcc.a builds on mips-ecoff targets
	* coffcode.h (styp_to_sec_flags): Explain how COMDATs are supposed
	to work.  Hack to support MS import libraries, which use different
	COMDAT types than GNU.
	(coff_slurp_symbol_table): C_SECTION symbols are local; they refer
	to implied zero-length sections (see peicode below)
	* coffgen.c (coff_get_normalized_symtab): Properly read long MS
	filename symbols, which use one *or more* auxents.
	* coffswap.h (coff_swap_aux_in): ditto
	* peicode.h (coff_swap_sym_in): Build the implied zero-length
	sections

1 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/peicode.h b/bfd/peicode.h
index 79d16e5abe9..f15e0ec28ba 100644
--- a/bfd/peicode.h
+++ b/bfd/peicode.h
@@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ coff_swap_sym_in (abfd, ext1, in1)
     {
       in->n_value = 0x0;
 
+#if 0
       /* FIXME: This is clearly wrong.  The problem seems to be that
          undefined C_SECTION symbols appear in the first object of a
          MS generated .lib file, and the symbols are not defined
@@ -518,6 +519,55 @@ coff_swap_sym_in (abfd, ext1, in1)
       /*      in->n_scnum = 3; */
       /*    else */
       /*      in->n_scnum = 2; */
+#else
+      /* Create synthetic empty sections as needed.  DJ */
+      if (in->n_scnum == 0)
+	{
+	  asection *sec;
+	  for (sec=abfd->sections; sec; sec=sec->next)
+	    {
+	      if (strcmp (sec->name, in->n_name) == 0)
+		{
+		  in->n_scnum = sec->target_index;
+		  break;
+		}
+	    }
+	}
+      if (in->n_scnum == 0)
+	{
+	  int unused_section_number = 0;
+	  asection *sec;
+	  char *name;
+	  for (sec=abfd->sections; sec; sec=sec->next)
+	    if (unused_section_number <= sec->target_index)
+	      unused_section_number = sec->target_index+1;
+
+	  name = bfd_alloc (abfd, strlen (in->n_name) + 10);
+	  if (name == NULL)
+	    return;
+	  strcpy (name, in->n_name);
+	  sec = bfd_make_section_anyway (abfd, name);
+
+	  sec->vma = 0;
+	  sec->lma = 0;
+	  sec->_cooked_size = 0;
+	  sec->_raw_size = 0;
+	  sec->filepos = 0;
+	  sec->rel_filepos = 0;
+	  sec->reloc_count = 0;
+	  sec->line_filepos = 0;
+	  sec->lineno_count = 0;
+	  sec->userdata = NULL;
+	  sec->next = (asection *) NULL;
+	  sec->flags = 0;
+	  sec->alignment_power = 2;
+	  sec->flags = SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_ALLOC | SEC_DATA | SEC_LOAD;
+
+	  sec->target_index = unused_section_number;
+
+	  in->n_scnum = unused_section_number;
+	}
+#endif
     }
 
 #ifdef coff_swap_sym_in_hook