* aoutx.h (translate_symbol_table): The string index 0 has a

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / bfd / ChangeLog

Mon Jan 24 12:38:54 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * aoutx.h (translate_symbol_table): The string index 0 has a
        special meaning for normal symbols, but not for dynamic symbols.

Sat Jan 22 12:26:01 1994  Stu Grossman  (grossman at cygnus.com)

        * sparclynx.c:  Setup appropriate macros to enable core file
        support.

Fri Jan 21 16:25:35 1994  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * targets.c: Add a vector of matching format names.
        * format.c (bfd_matching_formats): New function to return it.
        (bfd_check_format): Set it.
        * bfd-in2.h: Regenerated.

        * bfd-in.h: Remove decls of bfd_ec type and error printing functions.
        Remove decl of type symclass; wasn't used.
        * bfd.c: Document error handling, including code fragments
        containing the error decls that were in bfd-in.h.
        Remove DEFUNs.
        * bfd-in2.h: Regenerated.

Fri Jan 21 14:11:16 1994  Sean Fagan  (sef@cygnus.com)

        * nlmcode.h, liblnm.h, nlm32-alpha.c nlm32-i386.c nlm32-sparc.c:
        The sparc (and possibly other?) NLM format requires a different
        way to write exports, so add a write_export field to the backend
        data (and set it to NULL for everything but the sparc).

Fri Jan 21 14:11:16 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)

        * sunos.c (MY(read_dynamic_relocs)): Compare info->dynrel with NULL,
        not (struct external_nlist *) NULL.  info->dynrel is a PTR, not
        a struct external_nlist *.

Fri Jan 21 09:29:01 1994  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * bfd.c: Remove error strings for errors removed below.
        * aoutx.h (translate_to_native_sym_flags), bfd-in.h (bfd_ec),
        oasys.c (oasys_write_sections): Rename
        bfd_error_nonrepresentable_section to nonrepresentable_section.
        None of the other bfd error names start with "bfd_error".
        Remove errors symbol_not_found and no_relocation_info, which seem
        to be unused.
        * bfd-in2.h: Regenerated.

Fri Jan 21 01:11:55 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * bfd.c (bfd_get_gp_size): Added support for ELF.

        * syms.c (BSF_DYNAMIC): New symbol flag.
        (bfd_print_symbol_vandf): Print it.
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.
        * libaout.h (struct aout_backend_data): New read_dynamic_symbols
        and read_dynamic_relocs fields.
        (struct aoutdata): New dynamic_info field.
        (obj_aout_dynamic_info): New accessor macro.
        * sunos.c (struct sunos_dynamic_info): New structure.
        (sunos_read_dynamic_info, MY(read_dynamic_symbols),
        MY(read_dynamic_relocs)): New functions to read dynamic symbols
        and relocs.
        * aoutx.h (NAME(aout,some_aout_object_p)): If the object is
        dynamically linked, set SEC_RELOC for both the .text and .data
        sections.
        (translate_from_native_sym_flags): Don't set BSF_LOCAL for an
        undefined symbol.
        (translate_symbol_table): New function, split out of
        slurp_symbol_table; set the BSF_DYNAMIC flag appropriately.
        (NAME(aout,slurp_symbol_table)): Read dynamic symbols, if any.
        (NAME(aout,slurp_reloc_table)): Read dynamic relocs, if any.
        (NAME(aout,get_reloc_upper_bound)): Include dynamic reloc count in
        return value.
        * aoutf1.h (NAME(aout,sunos4_write_object_contents)): Don't write
        out dynamic symbols or relocs against reloc symbols, since they
        are already in the .text section and we wouldn't know where to
        write them anyhow.
        (sunos4_aout_backend): Initialize read_dynamic_symbols and
        read_dynamic_relocs fields.
        * aout-target.h (MY(backend_data)): Initialize
        read_dynamic_symbols and read_dynamic_relocs fields.

Thu Jan 20 20:57:27 1994  Ken Raeburn  (raeburn@cujo.cygnus.com)

        * hosts/alphaosf.h (uint64e_type, uint64_type, int64_type): Delete
        typedefs, since HOST_64_BIT will take care of defining them in
        bfd.h.

Wed Jan 19 17:28:59 1994  Ken Raeburn  (raeburn@cujo.cygnus.com)

        * config/alphaosf.mh (HDEFINES): Don't define HOST_64_BIT here;
        that's dealt with elsewhere.
        * hosts/alphaosf.h (sprintf_vma, fprintf_vma): New macros.
        (uint64_typeHIGH, uint64_typeLOW): Comment with HOST_64_BIT so
        they get copied to bfd.h.

        * reloc.c (enum bfd_reloc_code_real): Add some Alpha relocation
        types.  Reorganized some of the existing ones.
        * coff-alpha.c (alpha_howto_table): Construct 64-bit negative one
        values in case of compilation on a 32-bit machine.  Fix pcrel
        fields of some reloc types.
        (alpha_bfd_reloc_type_lookup): Handle more relocation types.

        * bfd-in.h (uint64_typeHIGH, uint64_typeLOW): Supply default
        definitions when not defined, regardless of whether uint64_type is
        a defined macro or not.
        (fprintf_vma, sprintf_vma): Define only if fprintf_vma is not
        already defined.

Wed Jan 19 00:02:54 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * aoutx.h (translate_to_native_sym_flags): Set the type of a
        BSF_WARNING symbol to N_WARNING.

Tue Jan 18 16:43:19 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * aoutx.h (aout_link_add_symbols): Increment sym_hash as well as p
        for an indirect or warning symbol.
        (aout_link_write_symbols): Update sym_hash with the target of an
        indirect or warning symbol.  If an indirect symbol is defined,
        output the calculated value and don't output the target symbol.

Tue Jan 18 03:54:59 1994  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * aoutx.h (translate_from_native_sym_flags): Give warning symbols
        an (unused) nonzero section value, needed for check below.

Mon Jan 17 15:12:07 1994  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * aoutx.h (translate_from_native_sym_flags,
        aout_link_add_symbols): Treat N_SET[ABDT] | N_EXT like
        N_SET[ABDT].

Fri Jan 14 16:45:43 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * elfcode.h (elf_object_p): If there is a SHT_DYNAMIC section, set
        the DYNAMIC flag for the BFD.
        (NAME(bfd_elf,write_object_contents)): Don't try to write out a
        BFD with the DYNAMIC flag set, since we don't generate the program
        header table correctly.

Fri Jan 14 01:04:36 1994  Peter Schauer  (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)

        * elfcode.h (elf_slurp_symbol_table):  Free x_symp at the end
        of the function to avoid storage leak.

Thu Jan 13 23:07:32 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * ecoff.c (ecoff_link_write_external): An ifd can be -1.

Thu Jan 13 12:33:27 1994  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * som.c (som_set_reloc_info): Provide a default symbol for
        relocations which don't actually have an associated symbol.

        * som.c (hppa_som_reloc): Add new "error message" argument.

Wed Jan 12 13:36:43 1994  Peter Schauer  (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)

        Enable gdb to write to core files on more core file readers.
        * libbfd.c (bfd_generic_set_section_contents):  Remove range check
        for section size, it is already done in bfd_set_section_contents
        with bfd_get_section_size_now.
        * aix386-core.c, hppabsd-core.c, hpux-core.c, irix-core.c,
        osf-core.c, ptrace-core.c, trad-core.c (*_set_section_contents):
        Use bfd_generic_set_section_contents instead of bfd_false.

Wed Jan 12 15:31:57 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * linker.c: Added initial documentation.

        * linker.c (default_indirect_link_order): Don't expect space for
        output relocations if there aren't any input relocations.

Tue Jan 11 14:37:12 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * aoutx.h (NAME(aout,final_link)): Set a_entry before computing
        file offsets.

        * elfcode.h (swap_out_syms): A common symbol is STT_OBJECT, not
        STT_NOTYPE.

Tue Jan 11 09:10:56 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)

        * config.bfd: Use ELF, not COFF for m88*-*-dgux*.
        Combine m88k-*-* and m88110-*-* cases into m88*-*-*.

Tue Jan 11 00:07:19 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * ecofflink.c: Extensive changes to compress and merge debugging
        information, and to write some of out directly rather than saving
        it in memory.  Several new functions and structures, and new
        arguments to existing functions.
        * ecoff.c (ecoff_compute_reloc_file_positions): Compute
        sym_filepos as well.
        (ecoff_get_extr): Use ifdmap instead of ifdbase.
        (ecoff_write_object_contents): Don't compute sym_filepos here.
        Only output symbols if outsymbols is not NULL.
        (ecoff_bfd_final_link): Adjust for changes in ecoff_debug_info and
        bfd_ecoff_debug functions.  Write out debugging information here.
        (ecoff_final_link_debug_accumulate): Adjust for changes in
        bfd_ecoff_debug functions.
        (ecoff_link_write_external): Use ifdmap rather than ifdbase.
        * elf32-mips.c (mips_elf_read_ecoff_info): Read external symbols
        first, to put them in the first memory buffer.  Clear fdr field.
        (mips_elf_get_extr): Use pointer to unswapped external symbol.
        (mips_elf_final_link): Adjust for changes in bfd_ecoff functions.
        Preserve .text, .data and .bss even if they are empty.  Save
        pointer to unswapped external symbol rather than copying it.
        Don't free up the external symbols.
        * libelf.h (elf_symbol_type): Change mips_extr to PTR.
        * bfd-in.h (bfd_ecoff_debug_init, bfd_ecoff_debug_free): Declare.
        (bfd_ecoff_debug_accumulate): Update declaration.
        (bfd_ecoff_debug_accumulate_other): Rename declaration from
        bfd_ecoff_debug_link_other and update.
        (bfd_ecoff_write_accumulated_debug): Declare.
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.
        * Makefile.in: Rebuilt dependencies.

Mon Jan 10 20:46:53 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)

        * Makefile.in (install): Remove "@" which follows a backslash.  In
        this position it just causes errors, not suppresses echoes.

Mon Jan 10 09:06:21 1994  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * som.c (hppa_som_gen_reloc_type): Fix handling of LT and RT
        field selectors.

Sun Jan  9 04:32:25 1994  Ken Raeburn  (raeburn@kr-pc.cygnus.com)

        * config/i386-netbsd.mt (SELECT_VECS): Include i386bsd_vec.

Fri Jan  7 10:27:27 1994  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@rtl.cygnus.com)

        * aoutx.h (adjust_z_magic): Don't merge the start of bss with the
        end of data if they are not contiguous.

        * aoutf1.h (sunos4_aout_backend): Comment the fields' meanings.

Fri Jan  7 15:40:16 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * ecoff.c (ecoff_mkobject_hook): Don't set SEC_SHARED_LIBRARY flag
        for .reginfo section here.
        (ecoff_new_section_hook): Set it here instead.

Fri Jan  7 10:29:27 1994  Stan Shebs  (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)

        * bfd-in.h: (bfd_boolean): Add workaround for systems that also
        define true and false as enums.
        (ALMOST_STDC): Add as alternative to __STDC__.
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.
        * syms.c (bfd_print_symbol_vandf): Convert a PTR to FILE*.

Thu Jan  6 14:24:44 1994  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * aoutx.h (translate_to_native_sym_flags): Catch the case where
        there is no output section.

Thu Jan  6 14:37:42 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * nlmcode.h (nlm_object_p): If we can't read the fixed header,
        count it as a wrong format error, not a system call error, since
        the object file might simply be too small.

        * targets.c (target_vector): Added nlm32_alpha_vec inside #ifdef
        BFD64.
        * Makefile.in (BFD32_BACKENDS): Remove nlm32-alpha.o.
        (BFD64_BACKENDS): Add nlm32-alpha.o.  It depends on 64 bit
        support, even though it is for an Alpha in 32 bit mode.
        * configure.in (nlm32_alpha_vec): Set target64 to true.

        * nlm32-gen.c, nlm64-gen.c: Removed.  All nlm targets are
        different, so there is no point to providing a generic one.
        * libnlm.h: Don't bother to check for nlm_backend(bfd) being NULL
        in the backend accessor macros; that should no longer be possible.
        * targets.c (target_vector): Removed nlm32_big_generic_vec,
        nlm64_big_generic_vec, nlm64_little_generic_vec.
        * configure.in (nlm32_big_generic_vec, nlm32_little_generic_vec,
        nlm64_big_generic_vec, nlm64_little_generic_vec): Removed.
        * Makefile.in: Rebuilt dependencies, and
        (BFD32_BACKENDS): Removed nlm32-gen.o.
        (BFD64_BACKENDS): Removed nlm64-gen.o.
        (CFILES): Removed nlm32-gen.c and nlm64-gen.c.

        * hp300hpux.c (ARCH_SIZE): Define before including aoutx.h.

        * linker.c (_bfd_generic_link_add_one_symbol): Add constructor and
        bitsize arguments.  Changed all callers (aoutx.h).
        * libbfd-in.h (_bfd_generic_link_add_one_symbol): Add constructor
        and bitsize arguments to declaration.
        * libbfd.h: Rebuilt.

        * ecoff.c: First cut at new style of linker backend for
        ECOFF--added a bunch of functions.  Also:
        (ecoff_sec_to_styp_flags): Set flags for .pdata and .xdata.
        (ecoff_slurp_symbolic_header): New function.
        (ecoff_slurp_symbolic_info): Call ecoff_slurp_symbolic_header.
        (ecoff_compute_reloc_file_positions): New function.
        (ecoff_set_section_contents): Get out quickly if count is zero.
        Check errors better.
        (ecoff_write_object_contents): Put .xdata section in data segment.
        Call ecoff_compute_reloc_file_positions.  Don't output relocs or
        external symbols if outsymbols is NULL.
        (ecoff_bfd_final_link): Completely rewritten.
        * libecoff.h: Include bfdlink.h.
        (struct ecoff_backend_data): Add relocate_section field.
        (ecoff_data_type): Add sym_hashes and symndx_to_section fields.
        (struct ecoff_link_hash_entry): Define.
        (struct ecoff_link_hash_table): Define.
        (ecoff_bfd_link_add_symbols): Declare as function, not macro.
        (ecoff_bfd_link_hash_table_create): Likewise.
        * ecofflink.c (bfd_ecoff_debug_one_external): New function.
        (bfd_ecoff_debug_externals): Call bfd_ecoff_debug_one_external.
        * bfd-in.h (bfd_ecoff_debug_one_external): Declare.
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.
        * coff-alpha.c (alpha_howto_table): Mark BRADDR as
        partial_inplace, and set the src_mask to 0x1fffff.
        (alpha_ecoff_get_relocated_section_contents): Remove unused
        variable gp_warned.
        (alpha_convert_external_reloc): New static function.
        (alpha_relocate_section): New static function.
        (alpha_ecoff_backend_data): Initialize relocate_section field.
        * coff-mips.c (mips_relocate_refhi): New static function.
        (mips_relocate_section): New static function.
        (mips_ecoff_backend_data): Initialize relocate_section field.

        * reloc.c (_bfd_relocate_contents): Corrected signed overflow
        checking when there is an addend.

        * aoutx.h (NAME(aout,final_link)): Don't abort when trying to link
        a non a.out file, just pass it to _bfd_default_link_order.
        (aout_link_input_section_std): When doing a final PC relative link
        against a section symbol, subtract the VMA of the input section.
        (aout_link_input_section_ext): Likewise.

        * linker.c (default_indirect_link_order): Renamed from
        _bfd_generic_indirect_link_order and made static.
        (_bfd_generic_final_link): Don't switch on link_order type, just
        call _bfd_default_link_order.
        (_bfd_default_link_order): Handle bfd_indirect_link_order type.
        * genlink.h: Removed declaration of
        _bfd_generic_indirect_link_order.
        * elf32-mips.c (mips_elf_final_link): Don't switch on link_order
        type, just call _bfd_default_link_order.

Tue Jan  4 21:23:37 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@cygnus.com)

        * linker.c (generic_link_check_archive_element): Base the name of
        the created common section on the name of the section the symbol
        came from.
        (_bfd_generic_link_add_one_symbol): (case BIG): A common symbol
        must have a section, so don't bother to create one.

Mon Jan  3 15:32:16 1994  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * aout-target.h (MY(vec)): Add DYNAMIC to mask of object flags.
        * aoutf1.h (NAME(aout,sunos4_write_object_contents)):
        If the DYNAMIC flag is set, set it in the exec header.
        * aoutx.h (NAME(aout,some_aout_object_p)): If the object is
        dynamically linked, set the DYNAMIC flag in the BFD.
        * libaout.h (N_SET_DYNAMIC): New macro.
        (N_DYNAMIC): Add missing 0 in mask.

Mon Jan  3 11:41:45 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * ecoff.c (ecoff_get_extr): Don't output section symbols as
        external symbols.

        * bfd-in.h, hash.c: Change bfd_hash_allocate argument from size_t
        to unsigned int, because size_t may not be defined in bfd.h.
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.

        * bfd-in.h (bfd_get{b,l}[_signed_]{16,32,64}): Declare argument to
        be a const pointer.
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.
        * libbfd.c (bfd_get{b,l}[_signed_]{16,32,64}): Declare argument to
        be a const pointer.
        * targets.c (bfd_target): Change swap function pointers
        accordingly.
        * archive.c (do_slurp_coff_armap): Change swap accordingly.
        * aix386-core.c: Change NO_GET and NO_GETS accordingly.
        * hppabsd-core.c, hpux-core.c, irix-core.c, osf-core.c,
        ptrace-core.c, trad-core.c: Change NO_GET and NO_SIGNED_GET
        accordingly.

        * libbfd-in.h (struct artdata): Added tdata field.
        (_bfd_add_bfd_to_archive_cache): Declare.
        (_bfd_get_elt_at_filepos): Declare.
        (_bfd_snarf_ar_hdr): Renamed from snarf_ar_hdr.
        * libbfd.h: Rebuilt.
        * archive.c: Cleaned up some more.
        (_bfd_generic_mkarchive, bfd_generic_archive_p): Initialize
        pointer elements of artdata.
        (_bfd_add_bfd_to_archive_cache): Renamed from add_bfd_to_cache.
        (_bfd_snarf_ar_hdr): Renamed from snarf_ar_hdr.
        (_bfd_get_elt_at_filepos): Renamed from get_elt_at_filepos.
        (get_extended_arelt_filename, bfd_construct_extended_name_table,
        bfd_ar_hdr_from_filesystem, compute_and_write_armap): Made static.
        * ecoff.c: Some comment changes.
        (ecoff_slurp_armap): Handle rename of snarf_ar_hdr.  Set
        ardata->tdata to raw_armap.
        (ecoff_archive_p): Initialize pointer elements of artdata.
        * coff-rs6000.c (rs6000coff_get_elt_at_filepos): Handle rename of
        add_bfd_to_cache.

        * hash.c: Added some documentation.

Mon Jan  3 11:09:28 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)

        * aout-target.h, netbsd386.c: Replace NO_SWAP_MAGIC with SWAP_MAGIC,
        and do the swapping here rather than calling ntohl from the N_*
        macros.  This cleans up assumptions about the size of a host long,
        the existence to ntohl, etc.

Sat Jan  1 13:50:05 1994  Rob Savoye  (rob@darkstar.cygnus.com)

        * config.bfd: Add support for VSTa micro-kernel. It currently uses
        i386-aout.

Sat Jan  1 10:18:54 1994  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * hosts/i386mach3.h (HOST_SEGMENT_SIZE): Fix value.
        * i386mach3.c (SEGMENT_SIZE): Fix value.

Fri Dec 31 16:23:43 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        Minor cleanups suggested by CodeCenter.
        * aoutx.h, coffgen.c, ecoff.c, ecofflink.c, elf.c, libbfd.c,
        linker.c, reloc.c, section.c, srec.c: Added /*ARGSUSED*/ as
        appropriate.
        * aoutx.h (struct external_exec): Removed unnecessary declaration.
        (NAME(aout,some_aout_object_p)): Set some tdata pointers to NULL.
        (adjust_z_magic): Removed useless variable data_vma.
        (stringtab_init): Initialize hash_zero.
        (add_to_stringtab): Removed unused fourth argument.
        (NAME(aout,swap_std_reloc_out)): Removed useless variable
        r_addend.
        (aout_link_input_section): Added some casts.
        * archive.c (get_extended_arelt_filename, do_slurp_coff_armap,
        bfd_ar_hdr_from_filesystem, bsd_write_armap, coff_write_armap):
        Minor code rewriting to make it more C like.
        (do_slurp_bsd_armap): Added some casts.
        * ecoff.c (ecoff_write_object_contents): Removed useless variable
        scn_base.
        (ecoff_write_armap): Added some casts.  Use "" rather than "\0".
        * ecofflink.c (bfd_ecoff_write_debug): Added a cast.
        * libaout.h (struct internal_exec): Removed unnecessary
        declaration.
        * linker.c (_bfd_generic_indirect_link_order): Added a cast.
        * opncls.c (new_bfd): Removed a cast.
        * reloc.c (bfd_generic_get_relocated_section_contents): Added
        some casts.
        * srec.c (internal_srec_write_object_contents): Removed useless
        variable bytes_written.

Fri Dec 31 11:46:13 1993  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * i386mach3.c (N_TXTADDR): Don't define after all.
        (TEXT_START_ADDR): Don't include exec header size in value.

Thu Dec 30 15:47:54 1993  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * i386mach3.c (N_TXTADDR): Define.

Thu Dec 30 13:37:24 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        Extensive changes to move the bulk of the linker into BFD so that
        more efficient backend code can be written for specific object
        files.  Only existing efficient backend is a.out.
        * seclet.c, seclet.h: Removed.
        * hash.c, linker.c, genlink.h: New files.
        * bfd-in.h: Removed bfd_error_vector.  Declared hash table
        structures and functions.
        (JUMP_TABLE): Removed bfd_seclet_link, added
        bfd_link_hash_table_create, bfd_link_add_symbols and
        bfd_final_link.
        * All backends: Changed accordingly.
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.
        * bfd.c (struct _bfd): Added link_next and archive_pass fields.
        Removed ld_symbols field.
        (bfd_nonrepresentable_section, bfd_undefined_symbol,
        bfd_reloc_value_truncated, bfd_reloc_is_dangerous,
        bfd_error_vector): Removed.
        (bfd_default_error_trap, bfd_error_trap,
        bfd_error_nonrepresentabltrap): Removed.
        (bfd_get_relocated_section_contents): Pass link_info.  Pass
        link_order instead of seclet.  Pass symbols.
        (bfd_relax_section): Pass link_info.
        (bfd_seclet_link): Removed.
        (bfd_link_hash_table_create, bfd_link_add_symbols,
        bfd_final_link): New macros.
        * libbfd-in.h: If __GNUC__ is defined and alloca is not, define
        alloca as __builtin_alloca.  Declare internal linking functions.
        * libbfd.h: Rebuilt.
        * libbfd.c (bfd_seek): Comment out fseek assertion.  It's worked
        for months.
        * reloc.c (reloc_howto_type): Added error_message argument to
        special_function field.  Changed all callers and all definitions.
        (bfd_get_reloc_size): Make argument a const pointer.
        (bfd_perform_relocation): Add error_message argument to hold
        string set if return value if bfd_reloc_dangerous.  Changed all
        callers.
        (_bfd_final_link_relocate, _bfd_relocate_contents): New functions.
        * section.c (asection): Renamed seclets_head and seclets_tail to
        link_order_head and link_order_tail.
        * targets.c (bfd_target): Replaced seclet argument with link_info
        and link_order and symbols arguments in
        bfd_get_relocated_section_contents.  Added symbols argument to
        bfd_relax_section.  Removed bfd_seclet_link.  Added
        bfd_link_hash_table_create, bfd_link_add_symbols and
        bfd_final_link.
        * libaout.h (struct aoutdata): Added external_syms,
        external_sym_count, external_strings, sym_hashes fields.
        (obj_aout_external_syms, obj_aout_external_sym_count,
        obj_aout_external_strings, obj_aout_sym_hashes): New accessor
        macros.
        (WRITE_HEADERS): Only output symbols if outsymbols is not NULL.
        * aoutx.h: Wrote new back end linker routines.
        (translate_to_native_sym_flags): Return boolean value.  Don't use
        bfd_error_vector.
        (NAME(aout,write_syms)): Return boolean value.  Check return value
        of translate_to_native_sym_flags and bfd_write.
        * aout-target.h (final_link_callback): New function.
        (MY_bfd_final_link): New function.
        * aout-adobe.c (aout_adobe_write_object_contents): Check return
        value of aout_32_write_syms.
        * hp300hpux.c (MY(write_object_contents)): Likewise.
        * i386lynx.c (WRITE_HEADERS): Likewise.
        * libaout.h (WRITE_HEADERS): Likewise.
        * bout.c: Changed functions to use link_info->callbacks rather
        than bfd_error_vector, and link_orders rather than seclets.
        * coff-alpha.c: Likewise.
        * coff-h8300.c: Likewise.
        * coff-h8500.c: Likewise.
        * coff-sh.c: Likewise.
        * coff-z8k.c: Likewise.
        * elf32-hppa.c: Likewise.
        * reloc16.c: Likewise.
        * coff-alpha.c (alpha_ecoff_get_relocated_section_contents): Look
        up _gp in the hash table rather than in outsymbols.
        * coff-a29k.c (a29k_reloc): Pass errors back in new error_message
        argument rather than printing them.
        * coffcode.h (bfd_coff_reloc16_extra_cases): Take link_info and
        link_order arguments rather than seclet.  Changed all uses and
        definitions.
        (bfd_coff_reloc16_estimate): Pass link_info arguments.  Changed
        all uses and definitions.
        * libcoff.h: Rebuilt.
        * ecoff.c (ecoff_get_extr): If symbol is defined by linker, but
        not by ECOFF, make it scAbs.
        (ecoff_bfd_final_link): Renamed from ecoff_bfd_seclet_link and
        rewritten.
        * elf32-mips.c (mips_elf_final_link): Renamed from
        mips_elf_seclet_link and rewritten.
        * elf32-hppa.c (elf32_hppa_stub_description): Added link_info
        field.
        (new_stub, add_stub_by_name, hppa_elf_build_arg_reloc_stub,
        hppa_elf_build_long_branch_stub, hppa_look_for_stubs_in_section):
        Added link_info arguments.  Changed all callers.
        * elfcode.h (elf_slurp_symbol_table): Don't quit if outsymbols is
        not NULL.
        * oasys.c (oasys_write_sections): Return boolean value rather than
        using bfd_error_vector.
        (oasys_write_object_contents): Check return value of
        oasys_write_sections.
        * hosts/std-host.h: Don't declare qsort or strtol.
        * Makefile.in: Rebuild dependencies.
        (BFD_LIBS): Removed seclet.o.  Added hash.o and linker.o.
        (CFILES): Removed seclet.c.  Added hash.c and linker.c.
        (HFILES): Removed seclet.h.  Added genlink.h.

Thu Dec 30 07:41:36 1993  Peter Schauer  (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)

        * section.c (bfd_get_section_contents):  Return zero filled buffer
        if section has no contents.

Tue Dec 28 12:43:54 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * elf.c (bfd_elf_generic_reloc): If this is not an inplace reloc,
        then skip bfd_perform_relocation even if the addend is non-zero.

Tue Dec 21 09:22:19 1993  Ken Raeburn  (raeburn@rtl.cygnus.com)

        * coffcode.h (coff_write_relocs) [SWAP_OUT_RELOC_OFFSET]: Copy
        addend to r_offset field.

        * Makefile.in (CFILES): Added coff-sparc.c.  Rebuild dependencies.

        * coff-sparc.c (SWAP_IN_RELOC_OFFSET, SWAP_OUT_RELOC_OFFSET,
        CALC_ADDEND): Define.

        * aix386-core.c (aix386_core_file_p): Use cd_regs[0] for computing
        the offsetof because AIX /bin/cc does not like to take the address
        of an array.  (From Minh Tran-Le.)

Thu Dec 16 13:06:32 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * Thu Dec 16 15:41:06 1993  Peter Hoogenboom  (hoogen@cs.utah.edu)

        * elf32-hppa.c (hppa_elf_build_arg_reloc_stub): Make sure to copy
        the return pointer into %r2 if no jump-in-call-delay-slot
        optimization was done.

        * hosts/hp300bsd.h: Correctly identify 4.3BSD vs 4.4BSD.

Wed Dec 15 08:04:16 1993  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * hosts/std-host.h: (time): Don't declare; conflicts on Mach3.

        * hosts/i386mach3.h (HOST_PAGE_SIZE): Set to 1 to avoid padding.
        (HOST_SEGMENT_SIZE): Set to 0 for same reason.

        * i386mach3.c (PAGE_SIZE, SEGMENT_SIZE): Same changes as above.
        (TEXT_START_ADDR): Correct.
        (MY_backend_data): Define.

        * aoutx.h (adjust_o_magic, adjust_z_magic, adjust_n_magic):
        New functions; code moved from aout_<size>_adjust_sizes_and_vmas.

Tue Dec 14 21:48:33 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * som.c (som_begin_writing): Fix thinkos in auxiliary header
        support.
        (bfd_som_attach_aux_hdr): Likewise.

Mon Dec 13 23:34:48 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * elf32-hppa.c (hppa_elf_gen_reloc_type): Handle 'T' field
        selectors for PIC code.

        * som.c (hppa_som_gen_reloc_type): Handle 'T' field selectors.
        (som_write_fixups): Handle R_DLT_REL, R_FSEL, R_RSEL, R_LSEL
        relocations needed by PIC.

Tue Dec  7 15:47:51 1993  Stu Grossman  (grossman at cygnus.com)

        * nlmcode.h:  Fixes to avoid compiler warnings...

Tue Dec  7 15:10:54 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@cygnus.com)

        * libnlm.h (nlm_backend_data): Removed macro definition.
        (nlm_alpha_backend_data): Adjusted accordingly.

Sun Dec  5 19:32:08 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * som.c (som_begin_writing): Flesh out code for handling simple
        auxiliary headers.
        (bfd_som_attach_aux_hdr): New function.

        * som.h (struct somdata): Add fields for attaching version and
        copyright headers.  Add accessor macros.

        * som.c (R_DLT_REL, R_AUX_UNWIND, R_SEC_STMT): Add protected
        definitions for old versions of HPUX which fail to define them.
        (som_hppa_howto_talbe): Add R_DLT_REL, R_AUX_UNWIND, and R_SEC_STMT
        now that they're safe.  Delete bogus R_STATEMENT relocations.

        * som.c (som_hppa_howto_table): Add missing R_END_TRY.  Delete 
        extra R_DATA_OVERRIDE.
        (hppa_som_gen_reloc_type): Generate a relocation for the rounding
        mode selector if needed.
        (som_write_fixups): Handle requests for a change in the default
        rounding mode.  Rounding modes do not consume input bytes, but
        are just markers much like R_ENTRY and R_EXIT.

Sat Dec  4 19:40:32 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        Fri Dec  3 09:55:17 1993  Pete Hoogenboom  (hoogen@cs.utah.edu)

        * elf32-hppa.c: (hppa_elf_reloc):  Do not do code reordering when
        the branch instruction as originally been nullified.
        hppa_elf_reloc):  Avoid useless call to bfd_put_32 () in the
        case of no code reordering due to an LDO instruction in the
        delay slot of the branch.  Make sure to relocate the correct
        instruction.  Do not perform instruction reordering for millicode
        calls.
        (hppa_elf_build_arg_reloc_stub):  Change the relocation type
        to R_HPPA_STUB_CALL_17 when special processing might be needed.
        (hppa_elf_build_long_branch_stub): Prevent code reordering on
        a call from a linker stub to another linker stub and for millicode
        calls.  Do not trash the return register for calls from one linker
        stub to a second linker stub.

        * elf32-hppa.c: (elf_hppa_howto_table):  PLABEL and DLT
        relocations are not pc-relative.

        * hppa_stubs.h: (BLE_N_XXX_0_31):  New instruction used in
        linker stub code. 
        (COPY_2_31):  Likewise.

Fri Dec  3 18:40:58 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * config/solaris2.mh (HDEFINES): Remove -Dconst=
        * hosts/solaris.h: If not __GNUC__, define const as empty.

Thu Dec  2 15:43:32 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * ecoff.c: Added various casts for 32/64 bit cross targeting.
        (ecoff_mkobject_hook): Set SEC_SHARED_LIBRARY for the .reginfo
        section so that the linker ignores it.
        * ecofflink.c: Added various casts for 32/64 bit cross targeting.
        (ecoff_add_bytes): Changed need argument to size_t.
        (bfd_ecoff_debug_link_other): Check return value of
        ecoff_add_string.

        * libbfd-in.h (new_bfd): Use void rather than an empty parameter
        list.
        * libbfd.h: Rebuilt.

        * libnlm.h (struct nlm_obj_tdata): New field backend_data.
        (nlm_backend_data, nlm_alpha_backend_data): New accessor macros.
        (struct nlm_backend_data): New field no_uninitialized_data.
        (nlm_no_uninitialized_data): New accessor macro.
        * nlmcode.h (nlm_compute_section_file_positions): Handle
        no_uninitialized_data.
        (nlm_external_reloc_compare): Sort relocs by address for a
        particular symbol, to make the sort more stable.
        (nlm_write_object_contents): Cast the arguments to qsort.  Get the
        value of a debugging symbol the same way we get the value of a
        normal symbol.
        * nlm32-alpha.c: Various changes.  Write out GP and .lita relocs.
        Set no_uninitialized_data to true.
        * nlm32-i386.c (nlm32_i386_backend), nlm32-sparc.c
        (nlm32_sparc_backend): Set no_uninitialized_data field false.
        * nlmswap.h (nlm_swap_fixed_header_out): Zero out destination
        before filling it in.

Wed Dec  1 21:47:58 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * som.c (som_section_type, som_decode_symcalss): New functions.
        (som_get_symbol_info): Use them.
        (som_slurp_symbol_table): Set the section of common and undefined
        symbols correctly.

Wed Dec  1 14:15:10 1993  Ken Raeburn  (raeburn@cygnus.com)

        * elfcode.h (write_relocs): Initialize local var LAST_SYM_IDX, to
        make gcc happy.

        * mipsbsd.c: Changes from Ralph Campbell:
        (mips_howto_table_ext): MIPS_RELOC_LO16 should use
        complain_overflow_dont.
        (aout_mips_*_vec): Make name use "a.out" instead of "aout", to
        make gdb happy.

        * bfd.c (bfd_errmsgs): Reword invalid-target message.

        * config.bfd: For sparc*-*-coff, use sparc-coff.
        * configure.in: Handle sparccoff_vec.
        * targets.c (sparccoff_vec): Declare.

        * reloc.c (bfd_get_reloc_size): New function.
        (struct reloc_howto_type): Update documentation of size field.

Wed Dec  1 14:39:05 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * nlm32-alpha.c: New file; preliminary Alpha NetWare support.
        * config.bfd (alpha-*-netware*): New target; use alpha-nlm.
        * config/alpha-nlm.mt: New file.
        * configure.in (nlm32_alpha_vec): New vector; use nlm32-alpha.o,
        nlm32.o, and nlm.o.
        * Makefile.in (BFD32_BACKENDS): Added nlm32-alpha.o.
        (CFILES): Added nlm32-alpha.c.
        Rebuilt dependencies.
        * targets.c (nlm32_alpha_vec): Declare.

        * libnlm.h (struct nlm_backend_data): New fields
        optional_prefix_size, nlm_backend_object_p, nlm_write_prefix,
        nlm_set_public_section, nlm_get_public_offset.  Removed unused
        nlm_write_reloc field.  Changed nlm_write_import to remove
        unnecessary symbol argument.  Renamed nlm_write_externals to
        nlm_write_external, and changed cound argument from bfd_vma to
        bfd_size_type.
        (nlm_optional_prefix_size, nlm_backend_object_p_func,
        nlm_write_prefix_func, nlm_set_public_section_func,
        nlm_get_public_offset_func): New accessor macros.
        (nlm_write_reloc_func): Removed.
        (nlm_write_external_func): Adjusted for field renaming.
        * nlm32-i386.c (nlm_i386_write_import): Renamed from
        nlm_i386_write_reloc.  Removed old nlm_i386_write_import which
        just called old nlm_i386_write_reloc.
        (nlm_i386_write_external): Renamed from nlm_i386_write_externals.
        Declared.  Changed second argument from bfd_vma to bfd_size_type.
        (nlm32_i386_backend): Adjusted for changes to fields and names.
        * nlm32-sparc.c (nlm_sparc_mangle_relocs): Removed unused,
        ifdeffed out code.
        (nlm_sparc_write_import): Removed second argument.
        (nlm_sparc_write_external): Renamed from
        nlm_sparc_write_externals.  Changed second argument from bfd_vma
        to bfd_size_type.
        (nlm32_sparc_backend): Adjusted for changes to fields and names.
        * nlmcode.h: Removed some unused code.
        (nlm_object_p): Don't destroy tdata pointer.  Call
        backend_object_p function if it exists.
        (nlm_slurp_symbol_table): Removed unused variable rcount.  Call
        set_public_section_func if it exists instead of checking
        NLM_HIBIT.
        (nlm_compute_section_file_positions): Account for
        optional_prefix_size.
        (nlm_write_object_contents): Account for optional_prefix_size.
        Removed useless variable write_reloc_func.  Changed declaration
        and call of write_import_func.  Call write_prefix_func if it
        exists.  Removed unused variables len and temp.  Call
        get_public_offset_func if it exists rather than setting NLM_HIBIT.
        * nlmswap.h: Declare functions.

        * bfd-in.h (uint64_typeLOW, uint64_typeHIGH): Fully parenthesize
        for clarity.
        (fprintf_vma, sprintf_vma): Use %lx, not %x.
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.
        * hosts/alphaosf.h (uint64_typeLOW, uint64_typeHIGH): Cast results
        to unsigned long.

        * config.bfd: Don't set target64 here, as the setting is ignored.
        * configure.in (ecoffalpha_little_vec): Set target64.

        * config/alphaosf.mt (TDEFINES): Removed; setting host parameters
        in TDEFINES is wrong.

        * coff-alpha.c (alpha_ecoff_get_relocated_section_contents):
        Remove unused variable output_section.

Tue Nov 30 16:45:23 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * irix-core.c: New file for Irix 4 and Irix 5 core support.
        Functions taken out of coff-mips.c.  Handle vmap type VMAPFILE.
        * coff-mips.c: Irix 4 core file support moved to irix-core.c.
        * targets.c: If IRIX_CORE defined, include irix_core_vec in
        target_vector.
        * config/irix4.mh (HDEFINES): Add -DIRIX_CORE.
        (HDEPFILES): Define to be irix-core.o.
        * config/irix5.mh (HDEFINES): Define to be -DIRIX_CORE.
        (HDEPFILES): Define to be irix-core.o.
        * Makefile.in (OPTIONAL_BACKENDS): Added irix-core.o.  Removed
        sco-core.o, which no longer exists.
        (CFILES): Added all *-core.c files.
        Rebuilt dependencies.

Wed Nov 24 02:02:41 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * elfcode.h (map_program_segments): Restore check of file_size !=
        mem_size, but only if SHT_PROGBITS.

        * ecofflink.c: New file to hold ECOFF debug information linking
        routines.
        * ecoff.c (ecoff_clear_output_flags, ecoff_rel, ecoff_dump_seclet,
        ecoff_add_string, ecoff_get_debug): Removed.  Functionality now in
        ecofflink.c.
        (ecoff_get_extr, ecoff_set_index): New functions.
        (ecoff_slurp_symbolic_info): Don't save raw_size.
        (ecoff_bfd_seclet_link): Rewrote to use ecofflink.c functions.
        (ecoff_compute_section_file_positions): Don't set EXEC_P just
        because there is a start address.
        (ecoff_write_object_contents): Handle external symbols here.  Use
        ecofflink.c functions to write out debugging information.
        * elf32-mips.c (mips_elf_read_ecoff_info, mips_elf_get_extr,
        mips_elf_set_index): New functions.
        (mips_elf_seclet_link): Discard empty sections, the .options
        section and .gptab sections.  Handle linking .mdebug section.
        * libecoff.h (ecoff_data_type): Removed raw_size and ifdbase.
        * libelf.h (elf_symbol_type): Added mips_extr to tc_data union.
        * bfd-in.h: Added prototypes for routines in ecofflink.c (some are
        called by gas, so they are public).
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.
        * Makefile.in (BFD_LIBS): Added ecofflink.o.
        (CFILES): Added ecofflink.c.
        (ecofflink.o): New target.  Rebuilt dependencies.

Mon Nov 22 22:26:42 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * som.c (hppa_object_p): Also recognize SHARED_MAGIC_CNX as
        a valid magic number if it's been defined.

Mon Nov 22 14:17:36 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * ecoff.c (ecoff_mkobject): Don't create .scommon section; linker
        no longer requires it.
        (ecoff_bfd_seclet_link, ecoff_sizeof_headers,
        ecoff_write_object_contents): Don't treat .scommon section
        specially.

Mon Nov 22 10:54:27 1993  Fred Fish  (fnf@cygnus.com)

        Merged changes from kev@spuds.geg.mot.com (Kevin A. Buettner):
        * bfd/config/delta88.mh (HDEFINES): Define this to be -DPTRACE_CORE.
        * bfd/config/delta88.mh (HDEPFILES): Defined to be ptrace-core.o.
        * bfd/ptrace-core.c:  New file for dealing with core files with
        start with the ptrace_user structure found on BCS compliant systems.
        * bfd/targets.c (ptrace_core_vec):  New vector.

Mon Nov 22 02:33:12 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * Minimal support for reading SOM fixup streams.  Allows
        objdump -r to do something reasonable.
        * som.c (som_get_reloc_upper_bound): Implement.
        (som_canonicalize_reloc): Implement.
        (som_set_reloc_info, som_slurp_reloc_table): New functions.

Sun Nov 21 13:46:55 1993  Ken Raeburn  (raeburn@cambridge.cygnus.com)

        * hosts/lynx.h (FPRINTF_ALREADY_DECLARED): Define.
        * hosts/sparclynx.h: Include lynx.h instead of duplicating it.

Fri Nov 19 14:34:04 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * coff-a29k.c (a29k_reloc): For R_IREL, don't left shift
        signed_value before sign extending it.  Don't subtract out
        reloc_entry->address.  This makes it compatible with what gas is
        generating.

        * elfcode.h (elf_fake_sections): Accept .sbss as the name for a
        SHT_NOBITS sections.
        (map_program_segments): Don't leave the loop after the first
        SHT_NOBITS section.
        (assign_file_positions_except_relocs): Only force sh_offset and
        sh_addr to match modulo maxpagesize for a section which is not
        SHT_NOBITS.  Changed the method used to force page alignment after
        a SHT_NOBITS section to only do it for the last such consecutive
        section, and to really force page alignment.

Fri Nov 19 04:02:01 1993  Ken Raeburn  (raeburn@cambridge.cygnus.com)

        * coffcode.h (coff_slurp_symbol_table): Print more verbose message
        in the case of an unknown (or unhandled) storage class.

        * config/i386-lynx.mt (TDEFINES): FPRINTF_ALREADY_DECLARED should
        not be defined here, since it is a host attribute, not a target
        one.
        * config/m68k-lynx.mt, config/sparc-lynx.mt: Ditto.

        * coffcode.h (coff_bfd_reloc_type_lookup): Don't define if already
        defined.

        * coff-sparc.c: Define some relocations, based on ELF relocations.
        (enum reloc_type, bfd_coff_generic_reloc, coff_sparc_howto_table,
        struct coff_reloc_map, sparc_reloc_map,
        coff_sparc_reloc_type_lookup): Borrowed from elf32-sparc.c and
        elf.c, renamed.
        (coff_bfd_reloc_type_lookup): Define to be coff_sparc_reloc_....
        (rtype2howto): Index into coff_sparc_howto_table using
        dst->r_type.

Thu Nov 18 11:45:39 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * config.bfd (mips*-*-irix5*): New target; use mipsbelf.
        * configure.host (mips-sgi-irix5*) New host; use irix5 (no
        hosts/irix5.h created; just use std-host.h).
        * config/irix5.mh: New file; like irix4.mh, but don't use -G or
        -lmalloc.
        * Makefile.in: Rebuilt dependencies.

        * ecoffswap.h: Changed type of internal pointers for swap out
        functions to const *.

        * elf32-mips.c (mips_elf_got16_reloc): New function.  Handle GOT16
        correctly for assembler, but linker support not implemented.
        (elf_mips_howto_table): Use mips_elf_got16_reloc for GOT16.
        (mips_elf_sym_is_global): New function; at least on Irix 5, all
        non section symbols are considered global.
        (elf_backend_sym_is_global): Define.
        (mips_elf_final_write_processing): New function.  Set the MIPS
        architecture level correctly.
        (elf_backend_final_write_processing): Define.
        (mips_elf_section_from_shdr): Handle SHT_MIPS_OPTIONS.
        (mips_elf_fake_sections): Set entsize of .mdebug or .reginfo
        section to 1.  Handle .options section.
        (mips_elf_acom_section, mips_elf_acom_symbol,
        mips_elf_acom_symbol_ptr): New static variables, used to build a
        generic .acommon section to hold SHN_MIPS_ACOMMON symbols.
        (mips_elf_symbol_processing): Handle SHN_MIPS_ACOMMON symbols by
        putting them all in a global .acommon section.

        * elfcode.h (bfd_section_from_shdr): Don't dump core if target
        section has no ELF section data.
        (elf_make_sections): Set addralign of reloc section to 4.
        (elf_fake_sections): Likewise.
        (map_program_segments): Don't consider section 0.
        (assign_file_positions_except_relocs): Don't consider section 0.
        In the main loop, skip the symtab and strtab sections, since their
        positions are set elsewhere.
        (swap_out_syms): Set addralign of symtab section to 4.  Set
        addralign of strtab sections to 1.
        (assign_file_positions_for_relocs): Don't consider section 0.
        (write_object_contents): Don't write out section 0.

        * libelf.h (struct elf_backend_data): Added fields
        elf_backend_sym_is_global and elf_backend_final_write_processing.
        * elf32-target.h (elf32_bed): Added corresponding initializers.
        * elf64-target.h (elf64_bed): Likewise.
        * elfcode.h (sym_is_global): Take abfd argument.  Call
        elf_backend_sym_is_global if it is not NULL.
        (elf_map_symbols): Pass abfd to sym_is_global.
        (write_object_contents): Call elf_backend_final_write_processing
        if it is defined.

Wed Nov 17 18:43:28 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * libecoff.h: Include coff/ecoff.h.
        (struct ecoff_backend_data): Move external debugging information
        fields into a single field pointing to an ecoff_debug_swap
        structure.
        (ecoff_data_type): Move debugging information fields into a single
        field pointing to an ecoff_debug_info structure.
        * coff-alpha.c, coff-mips.c, ecoff.c: Corresponding changes.

Wed Nov 17 17:38:58 1993  Sean Eric Fagan  (sef@cygnus.com)

        * nlmswap.h: New file to swap fixed header.  Included by NLM
        backends.
        * libnlm.h (struct reloc_and_sec): Define.
        (struct nlm_backend_data): Add fields fixed_header_size,
        nlm_read_import, nlm_write_import, nlm_swap_fhdr_in,
        nlm_swap_fhdr_out.
        (nlm_fixed_header_size, nlm_read_import_func,
        nlm_write_import_func, nlm_swap_fixed_header_in_func,
        nlm_swap_fixed_header_out_func, nlm_write_external_func): New
        accessor macros.
        * nlmcode.h: Use new functions.
        * nlm32-i386.c: Provide new functions.
        * nlm32-sparc.c: New file; SPARC NLM backend.

Wed Nov 17 13:56:10 1993  Stan Shebs  (shebs@rtl.cygnus.com)

        * i386lynx.c (swap_std_reloc_in, swap_ext_reloc_in): Ignore
        garbage bits appearing in the upper end of symbolnums.

        * config/sparc-lynx.mt (TDEFINES): Add -DFPRINTF_ALREADY_DECLARED.

Tue Nov 16 17:03:41 1993  Stu Grossman  (grossman at cygnus.com)

        * lynx-core.c (lynx_core_file_p):  Change bfd_zalloc to bfd_alloc.
        * m68klynx.c:  Define core file macros.
        * hosts/i386lynx.h, hosts/m68klynx.h, hosts/lynx.h:  Move all
        non-architecture specific stuff into lynx.h.

Tue Nov 16 15:45:54 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)

        * i386linux.c: Define new macro ZMAGIC_DISK_BLOCK_SIZE to 1024, and
        change PAGE_SIZE to 4096.

Mon Nov 15 11:48:08 1993  Ken Raeburn  (raeburn@rtl.cygnus.com)

        * Makefile.in (diststuff): New target.

        * VERSION: Updated.

Sun Nov 14 23:33:01 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * som.c (som_object_setup): Do not create dummy ".text", ".data",
        and ".bss" sections.
        (setup_sections): Do not set SEC_HAS_CONTENTS if a section's size
        is zero.  Recognize BSS type sections and turn off SEC_LOAD and
        SEC_DATA (so binutils/size works).  Set the correct value for
        a section's _raw_size.
        (som_slurp_symbol_table): Program entry points, and millicode are
        also functions.  Mark them as such.  Also mark L$* symbols as
        debugging symbols.

        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.

Sat Nov 13 15:27:15 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * som.c (som_bfd_reloc_type_lookup): Add missing prototype.  Returns
        a pointer to constant data.  Delete bogus #define which made the 
        function useless.

        * som.c (som_prep_for_fixups): New function.
        (som_write_fixups): New function.
        (som_write_space_strings): New function.
        (som_write_symbol_strings): New function.
        (som_begin_writing): New function.

Fri Nov 12 15:29:36 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * som.c (som_write_object_contents): Do not abort.  Flesh out.
        (som_set_section_contents): Do not abort.  Flesh out.

        * som.c (som_write_headers): New function.
        (som_prep_headers): New function.
        (som_build_and_write_symbol_table): New function.

        * som.c (som_sizeof_headers): Add missing prototype.
        (som_set_arch_mach): Do not abort.

        * som.c (som_count_spaces): New function.
        (som_count_subspaces): New function.
        (compare_syms): New function.
        (som_compute_checksum): New function.

        * som.c (hppa_som_gen_reloc_type): New function.
        (som_bfd_reloc_type_lookup): New function.

        * som.c (try_prev_fixup): New function.
        (som_reloc_skip): New function.
        (som_reloc_addend): New function.
        (som_reloc_call): New function.

        * som.c (som_initialize_reloc_queue): New function.
        (som_reloc_queue_insert): Likewise.
        (som_reloc_queue_fix): Likewise.
        (som_reloc_queue_find): Likewise.

        * som.c (som_hppa_howto_table): SOM howto relocation table.
        (hppa_som_reloc): New function.

        * som.c (struct reloc_queue): New structure to keep track of
        the last four multibyte relocations emitted.
        (enum pa_symbol_type): Type to fully describe the symbol types
        associated with .import/.export assembler directives.

        * som.c: Include libhppa.h

        * som.c (bfd_som_set_section_attributes): New function.
        (bfd_som_set_subsection_attributes): Likewise.
        (bfd_som_set_symboL_type): Likewise.
        (bfd_som_attach_unwind_info): Likewise.
        * som.h: Declare new exported functions.

        * som.h (struct som_symbol): Add new fields to hold additional
        information needed to build/write symbol tables and fixup streams.
        (struct som_section_data_struct): Add new fields to hold additional
        information needed to build/write space and subspace headers.
        (som_symbol_data): New accessor macro for SOM symbol information.
        (R_HPPA_*): Basic relocation types to be used by the assembler.

Fri Nov 12 11:00:28 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)

        * trad-core.c (trad_unix_core_file_p): If new hook
        TRAD_CORE_ALLOW_ANY_EXTRA_SIZE defined, then skip the check for the
        corefile being too big.
        * hosts/i386sco.h: Define it.

Thu Nov 11 15:16:28 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * bfd.c (struct _bfd): Add hppabsd_core_data.
        * targets.c (target_vector): Add hppabsd_core_vec.
        * hpux-core.c (hpux_core_core_file_p): Fail if an unknown core
        section is encountered during core section scanning.
        * hppabsd-core.c: New file.
        * config/hppabsd.mh: Enable HPPA BSD core files.

        * elf32-hppa.c (hppa_elf_reloc): Remove DEFUN crud.  Remove code
        which is either commented out or ifdef'd out.  Add, update and
        clean comments.  Fix various indention and spacing problems.  Handle
        problems related to using "ble" to jump to a stub rather than "bl"
        (%r31 is trashed by "ble", but not by "bl").
        (NEW_INSTRUCTION): Put inside curly braces.
        (CURRENT_STUB_OFFSET): Fix indention problems.
        (hppa_elf_build_arg_reloc_stub): Fix indention and spacing problems.
        Add, update and clean comments.  Handle "ble" %r31 lossage problems.
        (hppa_elf_build_long_branch_stub): Likewise.
        (hppa_look_for_stubs_in_section): Likewise.
        (hppa_elf_stub_check): Remove obsolete function.

        * hppa_stubs.h: Add new instructions to deal with %r31 lossage
        problems.  Delete unused instructions.
        
Tue Nov  9 11:40:27 1993  Stan Shebs  (shebs@rtl.cygnus.com)

        * m68klynx.c (TARGET_IS_BIG_ENDIAN_P): Define.

Tue Nov  9 11:26:05 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * elfcode.h (elf_object_p): Rather than looking through an array
        of architectures, get the ELF EM_xxx code from the backend
        information.  Let the generic ELF target match any EM_xxx code not
        matched by another ELF target.  Call elf_backend_object_p to let
        the backend do more checks and set global information.
        * libelf.h (struct elf_backend_data): Added elf_machine_code and
        elf_backend_object_p fields.
        (struct bfd_elf_arch_map): Removed.
        (bfd_elf_arch_map, bfd_elf_arch_map_size): Don't declare.
        * elf32-target.h, elf64-target.h: Initialize elf_machine_code
        field with ELF_MACHINE_CODE.  Initialize elf_backend_object_p
        field with elf_backend_object_p (if it is defined).
        * elf32-gen.c, elf32-hppa.c, elf32-i386.c, elf32-i860.c,
        elf32-m68k.c, elf32-m88k.c, elf32-mips.c, elf32-sparc.c,
        elf64-gen.c (ELF_MACHINE_CODE): Defined.
        * elf32-mips.c: Include ecoffswap.h to get ECOFF swapping
        routines.
        (mips_elf_object_p): Set the right machine number.
        (mips_elf_ecoff_debug_swap): Defined.
        (elf_backend_object_p): Defined to be mips_elf_object_p.
        (elf_backend_ecoff_debug_swap): Defined to be
        mips_elf_ecoff_debug_swap.
        * elf.c (bfd_elf_arch_map, bfd_elf_arch_map_size): Removed.

        * libbfd-in.h (target_vector, default_vector): Declare.
        * libbfd.h: Rebuilt.
        * format.c (target_vector, default_vector): Don't declare.

        * elf32-mips.c (elf_mips_howto_table): Don't complain on overflow
        for R_MIPS_26.  Correct overflow detection requires matching the
        upper four bits of the destination against the PC.  From Ted Lemon
        <mellon@pepper.ncd.com>.

        * bout.c (b_out_reloc_type_lookup): Return type should point to
        const data.
        * coff-i960.c (coff_i960_reloc_type_lookup): Likewise.
        * elf32-hppa.c (elf_hppa_reloc_type_lookup): Likewise.
        * mipsbsd.c (MY(reloc_howto_type_lookup)): Likewise.
        * coff-i386.c (coff_i386_reloc): Made howto const.
        * oasys.c (oasys_write_data): Made how const.

        * libelf.h: Added some comments.
        (struct elf_backend_data): Added elf_backend_ecoff_debug_swap
        field.  Removed unused write_relocs field.
        * elf32-target.h: Adjusted elf_backend_data initialization
        accordingly.
        * elf64-target.h: Corrected elf_backend_data initialization to
        fill in all fields and to set elf_64_p to 1.

Mon Nov  8 18:13:14 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * elfcode.h (bfd_section_from_shdr): Remove duplicate assignment
        to filepos in SHT_STRTAB case.
        (assign_file_position_for_section): Set BFD section filepos as
        well as ELF section sh_offset.

        * reloc.c: Use const instead of CONST.
        (bfd_perform_relocation): Make variable howto a const pointer.
        * bfd-in2.h, libbfd.h: Rebuilt.

Mon Nov  8 12:19:15 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)

        * Makefile.in (realclean): Don't remove generated headers.  Reverts
        change of 2 Jul 1993.

Mon Nov  8 06:08:31 1993  D. V. Henkel-Wallace  (gumby@cirdan.cygnus.com)

        * configure.bfd: make unixware equivalent to sysv4.

        * config/i386-nlm.mt: bring in elf config; make it the default.

Sun Nov  7 20:21:38 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * libbfd.c (bfd_put_8): Add parens around reference to "val"
        argument.

Fri Nov  5 21:45:09 1993  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * hosts/i386mach3.h (HOST_SEGMENT_SIZE),
        i386mach3.c (SEGMENT_SIZE, TEXT_START_ADDR): Correct values (?).

Fri Nov  5 15:17:57 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * coffcode.h (coff_write_object_contents): Zero out internal_a.

Fri Nov  5 10:41:07 1993  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)

        * aoutx.h, archive.c, archures.c, bfd.c, cache.c, coffcode.h,
        core.c, ctor.c, format.c, init.c, libbfd.c, opncls.c, reloc.c,
        section.c, syms.c, targets.c:
        Doc cleanup (spelling, punctuation, grammar, formatting).
        * bfd-in2.h, libbfd.h: Rebuild.

Thu Nov  4 14:46:14 1993  John Gilmore  (gnu@rtl.cygnus.com)

        * bfd-in.h (bfd_get_cacheable, bfd_set_cacheable):  New accessors.
        * bfd.c, opncls.c:  Improve comments on file descriptor cacheing.

Thu Nov  4 08:54:30 1993  Jeffrey A. Law  (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)

        * From Pete Hoogenboom (hoogen@cs.utah.edu)
        * elf32-hppa.c (hppa_elf_get_section_contents): Fix logic error
        in last change.  Always rebuild symbol extension section the first
        time though if output sections exist (fixes ld -r problems).

Thu Nov 04 08:08:46 1993  Jeffrey Wheat  (cassidy@cygnus.com)

        * Makefile.in: Add .PHONY for check and installcheck rules.

Tue Nov  2 14:42:27 1993  Bill Cox (bill@tarkas.cygnus.com)

        * libbfd-in.h (artdata): Use long, not time_t for portability, at
          least to HPUX.  File below is a derived file.

Tue Nov  2 14:42:27 1993  Bill Cox (bill@tarkas.cygnus.com)

        * libbfd.h (artdata): Use long, not time_t for portability, at
          least to HPUX.

Tue Nov  2 09:32:25 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)

        * config.bfd: Use bigmips for mips*-*-bsd*.

Mon Nov  1 14:30:09 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)

        * elfcode.h (elf_slurp_reloca_table, elf_slurp_reloc_table):
        Handle symbol number of zero.

        * reloc.c (enum bfd_reloc_code_real): Added
        BFD_RELOC_MIPS_LITERAL, BFD_RELOC_MIPS_GOT16,
        BFD_RELOC_MIPS_CALL16, BFD_RELOC_MIPS_GPREL32.
        * bfd-in2.h: Rebuilt.
        * coff-mips.c (mips_bfd_reloc_type_lookup): Handle
        BFD_RELOC_MIPS_LITERAL.
        * elf32-mips.c (mips_reloc_map): Handle new relocs.
        (mips_elf_hi16_reloc, mips_elf_lo16_reloc): Rearrange _gp_disp
        checks slightly.

        * aout-target.h (MY_bfd_debug_info_start, MY_bfd_debug_info_end,
        MY_bfd_debug_info_accumulat [sic]): Remove unused definitions.
        (MY_bfd_get_relocated_section_contents, MY_bfd_relax_section,
        MY_bfd_seclet_link): Define.
        (MY_bfd_reloc_type_lookup): Rename from
        MY_reloc_howto_type_lookup.
        (MY_bfd_make_debug_symbol): Rename from MY_make_debug_symbol.
        (MY(vec)): Use JUMP_TABLE rather than listing functions.
        * hp300hpux.c (MY_get_symtab, MY_get_symtab_upper_bound,
        MY_canonicalize_reloc, MY_write_object_contents): Don't define in
        terms of MY, because that causes a recusive invocation of CAT when
        expanded within JUMP_TABLE, and ANSI compilers don't expand
        recursive macros.
        * mipsbsd.c (MY_bfd_reloc_type_lookup): Rename from
        MY_reloc_howto_type_lookup, and don't define in terms of MY.
        (MY_canonicalize_reloc): Don't define in terms of MY.
        (aout_mips_little_vec, aout_mips_big_vec): Use JUMP_TABLE rather
        than listing functions.

Mon Nov  1 09:12:25 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)

        * config.bfd: Use m68k-elf for m68*-*-sysv4*.

See file ChangeLog.1

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