Don't try to create a bfd section for the first ELF section header table

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

diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 427c2d183ba9ef1271756cf573a5654cff92b79d..bd62645c61e85bac0187d162c8d552b69f8c7972 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -412,9 +412,10 @@ wrong:
     }
   
   /* Once all of the section headers have been read and converted, we
-     can start processing them. */
+     can start processing them.  Note that the first section header is
+     a dummy placeholder entry, so we ignore it. */
 
-  for (shindex = 0; shindex < i_ehdr.e_shnum; shindex++)
+  for (shindex = 1; shindex < i_ehdr.e_shnum; shindex++)
     {
       bfd_section_from_shdr (abfd, i_shdr + shindex, shstrtab);
     }
@@ -701,7 +702,7 @@ DEFUN (elf_sizeof_headers, (abfd, reloc),
 #define elf_openr_next_archived_file   bfd_generic_openr_next_archived_file
 #define elf_generic_stat_arch_elt      bfd_generic_stat_arch_elt
 #define        elf_write_armap                 (PROTO (boolean, (*),           \
-     (bfd *arch, unsigned int elength, struct orl *map, int orl_count, \
+     (bfd *arch, unsigned int elength, struct orl *map, unsigned int orl_count,        \
       int stridx))) bfd_false
 
 /* Ordinary section reading and writing */