+static bfd_boolean
+mmo_section_has_contents (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, asection *sec, void *p ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
+{
+ /* The point is to match what --extract-symbols does (well, negated). */
+ return bfd_get_section_size (sec) != 0;
+}
+
+/* Find out whether we should omit symbol consistency checks for this
+ bfd and cache the value.
+
+ This function must only be called when all section contents is
+ known. However, calculating symbol consistency at the time the
+ private BFD data is initialized is too late for some uses. */
+
+static bfd_boolean
+mmo_ignore_symbol_consistency (bfd *abfd)
+{
+ if (!abfd->tdata.mmo_data->symbol_consistency_override_calculated)
+ {
+ abfd->tdata.mmo_data->ignore_symbol_consistency =
+ bfd_sections_find_if (abfd, mmo_section_has_contents, NULL) == NULL;
+
+ abfd->tdata.mmo_data->symbol_consistency_override_calculated = TRUE;
+ }
+
+ return abfd->tdata.mmo_data->ignore_symbol_consistency;
+}
+