PR ld/20815
bfd * elf.c (elf_modify_segment_map): Allow empty LOAD segments if
they contain the program headers.
(_bfd_elf_map_sections_to_segments): If the linker created the
PHDR segment then always attempt to include it in a LOAD segment.
(assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections): Allow LOAD segments
to overlap PHDR segments.
(phdr_sorter): New function. Sorts program headers.
(assign_file_positions_except_relocs): Sort the program headers
before writing them out. Issue an error if the PHDR segment is
not covered by a LOAD segment, unless the backend allows it.
* elf-bfd.h (struct elf_backend_data): Add
elf_backend_allow_non_load_phdr.
* elfxx-target.h (elf_backend_allow_non_load_phdr): Provide
default definition that returns FALSE.
(elfNN_bed): Initialise the elf_backend_allow_non_load_phdr
field.
* elf64-hppa.c (elf64_hppa_allow_non_load_phdr): New function.
Returns TRUE.
(elf_backend_allow_non_load_phdr): Define.
* elf-m10300.c (_bfd_mn10300_elf_size_dynamic_sections): Do not
place the interpreter string into the .interp section if the
nointerp flag is set in the link info structure.
* elf32-arc.c (elf_arc_size_dynamic_sections): Likewise.
* elf32-score7.c (score_elf_final_link_relocate): Allow for the
_gp symbol not being part of the output.
binutils* readelf.c (process_program_headers): Check PT_LOAD and PT_PHDR
segments for validity.
ld * ld.texinfo: Note that PT_TLS can be used as a segment type.
* testsuite/ld-discard/discard.ld: Add space for program headers.
* testsuite/ld-elf/flags1.ld: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/maxpage3.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/noload-1.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/orphan.ld: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/overlay.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/pr14052.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/pr19539.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/provide-hidden-1.ld: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/provide-hidden-s.ld: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/weak-dyn-1.ld: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-i386/pr19539.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/defined.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/defined6.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/dynamic-sections.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-aligned.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/provide-2.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/provide-4.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-vax-elf/plt-local.ld: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-x86-64/pr19539.t: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/ehdr_start-missing.d: Do not initialise the
dynamic linker.
* testsuite/ld-elf/ehdr_start-weak.d: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/elf.exp (pr14170, pr17068): Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/loadaddr1.d: Update expected readelf output.
* testsuite/ld-elf/noload-2.d: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-powerpc/vxworks2.sd: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/phdrs3a.d: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/size-2.d: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-elf/group.ld: Add program headers.
* testsuite/ld-elf/overlay.d: Skip for SPU.
* testsuite/ld-elf/flags1.d: Skip for RX.
* testsuite/ld-elf/pr19162.d: Skip for HPPA64.
* testsuite/ld-elf/pr19539.d: Skip for ALPHA.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-orphan.t: Update program headers.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/size-2.t: Likewise.
An assignment to dot in an output section that allocates space of
course keeps the output section. Here, I'm changing the behaviour for
assignments that don't allocate space. The idea is not so much to
allow people to force output of an empty section with ". = .", but
to fix cases where an otherwise empty section has padding added by an
alignment expression that changes with relaxation or .eh_frame
editing. Such a section might have zero size before relaxation and so
be stripped incorrectly.
ld/
* ld.texinfo (Output Section Discarding): Mention assigning to dot
as a way of keeping otherwise empty sections.
* ldexp.c (is_dot, is_value, is_sym_value, is_dot_ne_0,
is_dot_plus_0, is_align_conditional): New predicates.
(exp_fold_tree_1): Set SEC_KEEP when assigning to dot inside an
output section, except for some special cases.
* scripttempl/elfmicroblaze.sc: Use canonical form to align at
end of .heap and .stack.
ld/testsuite/
* ld-shared/elf-offset.ld: Align end of .bss with canonical form
of ALIGN that allows an empty .bss to be removed.
* ld-arm/arm-dyn.ld: Likewise.
* ld-arm/arm-lib.ld: Likewise.
* ld-elfvsb/elf-offset.ld: Likewise.
* ld-mips-elf/mips-dyn.ld: Likewise.
* ld-mips-elf/mips-lib.ld: Likewise.
* ld-arm/arm-no-rel-plt.ld: Remove duplicate ALIGN.
* ld-powerpc/vle-multiseg-1.ld: Remove ALIGN at start of section.
ALIGN address of section instead.
* ld-powerpc/vle-multiseg-2.ld: Likewise.
* ld-powerpc/vle-multiseg-3.ld: Likewise.
* ld-powerpc/vle-multiseg-4.ld: Likewise.
* ld-powerpc/vle-multiseg-6.ld: Likewise.
* ld-scripts/empty-aligned.d: Check section headers not program
headers. Remove xfail and notarget.
* ld-scripts/empty-aligned.t: Use canonical ALIGN for end of .text2.
