/* Support for the generic parts of COFF, for BFD.
Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
- 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
+ 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Cygnus Support.
name = NULL;
- /* Handle long section names as in PE. */
- if (bfd_coff_long_section_names (abfd)
+ /* Handle long section names as in PE. On reading, we want to
+ accept long names if the format permits them at all, regardless
+ of the current state of the flag that dictates if we would generate
+ them in outputs; this construct checks if that is the case by
+ attempting to set the flag, without changing its state; the call
+ will fail for formats that do not support long names at all. */
+ if (bfd_coff_set_long_section_names (abfd, bfd_coff_long_section_names (abfd))
&& hdr->s_name[0] == '/')
{
char buf[SCNNMLEN];