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[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / bfd / elf.c

diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 94726bad2e46782d1e6ce2168cea5d39c2882e63..9418e51a7e0e30f09fc5a0798175125ec5a1b69c 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -6689,11 +6689,16 @@ rewrite_elf_program_header (bfd *ibfd, bfd *obfd)
          /* Special segments, such as the PT_PHDR segment, may contain
             no sections, but ordinary, loadable segments should contain
             something.  They are allowed by the ELF spec however, so only
-            a warning is produced.  */
-         if (segment->p_type == PT_LOAD)
+            a warning is produced.  
+            There is however the valid use case of embedded systems which
+            have segments with p_filesz of 0 and a p_memsz > 0 to initialize
+            flash memory with zeros.  No warning is shown for that case.  */
+         if (segment->p_type == PT_LOAD
+             && (segment->p_filesz > 0 || segment->p_memsz == 0))
+           /* xgettext:c-format */
            _bfd_error_handler (_("\
-%B: warning: Empty loadable segment detected, is this intentional ?"),
-                               ibfd);
+%B: warning: Empty loadable segment detected at vaddr=0x%.8x, is this intentional ?"),
+                               ibfd, segment->p_vaddr);
 
          map->count = 0;
          *pointer_to_map = map;