The 64-bit version of binutils got support for the PE COFF BIG OBJ format a
couple of years ago. The BIG OBJ format is a slightly different COFF format
which extends the size of the number of section field in the header from a
uint16_t to a uint32_t and so greatly increases the number of sections allowed.
However the 32-bit version of bfd never got support for this. The GHC Haskell
compiler generates a great deal of symbols due to it's use of
-ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections.
This meant that we could not build the 32-bit version of the GHC Compiler for
many releases now as binutils didn't have this support.
This patch adds the support to the 32-bit port of binutils as well and also does
come cleanup in the code.
bfd/ChangeLog:
* coff-i386.c (COFF_WITH_PE_BIGOBJ): New.
* coff-x86_64.c (COFF_WITH_PE_BIGOBJ): New.
* config.bfd (targ_selvecs): Rename x86_64_pe_be_vec
to x86_64_pe_big_vec as it not a big-endian format.
(vec i386_pe_big_vec): New.
* configure.ac: Likewise.
* targets.c: Likewise.
* configure: Regenerate.
* pe-i386.c (TARGET_SYM_BIG, TARGET_NAME_BIG,
COFF_WITH_PE_BIGOBJ): New.
* pe-x86_64.c (TARGET_SYM_BIG, TARGET_NAME_BIG):
New.
(x86_64_pe_be_vec): Moved.
gas/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Add news entry for big-obj.
* config/tc-i386.c (i386_target_format): Support new format.
* doc/c-i386.texi: Add i386 support.
* testsuite/gas/pe/big-obj.d: Rename test to not be x64 specific.
* testsuite/gas/pe/pe.exp (big-obj): Make test run on i386 as well.
ld/ChangeLog:
* pe-dll.c (pe_detail_list): Add pe-bigobj-i386.
2012-10-18 Kai Tietz <ktietz@redhat.com>
PR binutils/14067
* coff-i386.c (bfd_target): Add section flag SEC_EXCLUDE.
Allow BFD_COMPRESS and BFD_DECOMPRESS flags.
* coff-x86_64.c: Likewise.
* coffcode.h (DOT_ZDEBUG): New define.
(sec_to_styp_flags): Check for .zdebug.
(styp_to_sec_flags): Likewise.
* coffgen.c (make_a_section): Handle .debug_* section
compression/decompression flags.
* cofflink.c (mark_relocs): Ignore relocations
for a section, which isn't marked as used.
(_bfd_coff_link_input_bfd): Add support of compressed
debug sections.
* compress.c (decompress_contents): Loop as long
as there is input available and there is room for
output.
* bfd/pe-arm.c: Add .zdebug_ partial match entry.
* pe-i386.c: Likewise.
* pe-x86_64.c: Likewise.
* peXXigen.c (_bfd_XXi_swap_aouthdr_out): Don't clear all
data-directories as this might destroy content.
* coff-i386.c (_bfd_generic_find_nearest_line_discriminator):
define as coff_find_nearest_line_discriminator.
* libcoff-in.h (coff_find_nearest_line_discriminator): New
* libcoff.h: Regenerated.
* coff-x86_64.c: Likewise.
* coffgen.c (coff_find_nearest_line_discriminator): New function.
prototype.
ChangeLog binutils
2012-10-18 Kai Tietz <ktietz@redhat.com>
* objdump.c (dump_bfd): Call dump headers after
call of slurp_symtab.
ChangeLog ld
2012-10-18 Kai Tietz <ktietz@redhat.com>
PR binutils/14067
* NEWS: Menition new feature.
* scripttempl/pep.sc: Add zdebug sections.
* scripttempl/pe.sc: L
* pei-i386.c (COFF_SECTION_ALIGNMENT_ENTRIES): Enable 16 byte
alignment for .data$, .rdata$ and .text$ sections so that sse
and sse2 code will work for linkonce sections too.
* pe-i386.c (COFF_SECTION_ALIGNMENT_ENTRIES): Likewise.