/* Support for the generic parts of most COFF variants, for BFD. Copyright (C) 1990-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Cygnus Support. This file is part of BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ /* Most of this hacked by Steve Chamberlain, sac@cygnus.com. *//*SECTION coff backends BFD supports a number of different flavours of coff format. The major differences between formats are the sizes and alignments of fields in structures on disk, and the occasional extra field. Coff in all its varieties is implemented with a few common files and a number of implementation specific files. For example, the i386 coff format is implemented in the file @file{coff-i386.c}. This file @code{#include}s @file{coff/i386.h} which defines the external structure of the coff format for the i386, and @file{coff/internal.h} which defines the internal structure. @file{coff-i386.c} also defines the relocations used by the i386 coff format @xref{Relocations}. SUBSECTION Porting to a new version of coff The recommended method is to select from the existing implementations the version of coff which is most like the one you want to use. For example, we'll say that i386 coff is the one you select, and that your coff flavour is called foo. Copy @file{i386coff.c} to @file{foocoff.c}, copy @file{../include/coff/i386.h} to @file{../include/coff/foo.h}, and add the lines to @file{targets.c} and @file{Makefile.in} so that your new back end is used. Alter the shapes of the structures in @file{../include/coff/foo.h} so that they match what you need. You will probably also have to add @code{#ifdef}s to the code in @file{coff/internal.h} and @file{coffcode.h} if your version of coff is too wild. You can verify that your new BFD backend works quite simply by building @file{objdump} from the @file{binutils} directory, and making sure that its version of what's going on and your host system's idea (assuming it has the pretty standard coff dump utility, usually called @code{att-dump} or just @code{dump}) are the same. Then clean up your code, and send what you've done to Cygnus. Then your stuff will be in the next release, and you won't have to keep integrating it. SUBSECTION How the coff backend works SUBSUBSECTION File layout The Coff backend is split into generic routines that are applicable to any Coff target and routines that are specific to a particular target. The target-specific routines are further split into ones which are basically the same for all Coff targets except that they use the external symbol format or use different values for certain constants. The generic routines are in @file{coffgen.c}. These routines work for any Coff target. They use some hooks into the target specific code; the hooks are in a @code{bfd_coff_backend_data} structure, one of which exists for each target. The essentially similar target-specific routines are in @file{coffcode.h}. This header file includes executable C code. The various Coff targets first include the appropriate Coff header file, make any special defines that are needed, and then include @file{coffcode.h}. Some of the Coff targets then also have additional routines in the target source file itself. SUBSUBSECTION Coff long section names In the standard Coff object format, section names are limited to the eight bytes available in the @code{s_name} field of the @code{SCNHDR} section header structure. The format requires the field to be NUL-padded, but not necessarily NUL-terminated, so the longest section names permitted are a full eight characters. The Microsoft PE variants of the Coff object file format add an extension to support the use of long section names. This extension is defined in section 4 of the Microsoft PE/COFF specification (rev 8.1). If a section name is too long to fit into the section header's @code{s_name} field, it is instead placed into the string table, and the @code{s_name} field is filled with a slash ("/") followed by the ASCII decimal representation of the offset of the full name relative to the string table base. Note that this implies that the extension can only be used in object files, as executables do not contain a string table. The standard specifies that long section names from objects emitted into executable images are to be truncated. However, as a GNU extension, BFD can generate executable images that contain a string table and long section names. This would appear to be technically valid, as the standard only says that Coff debugging information is deprecated, not forbidden, and in practice it works, although some tools that parse PE files expecting the MS standard format may become confused; @file{PEview} is one known example. The functionality is supported in BFD by code implemented under the control of the macro @code{COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES}. If not defined, the format does not support long section names in any way. If defined, it is used to initialise a flag, @code{_bfd_coff_long_section_names}, and a hook function pointer, @code{_bfd_coff_set_long_section_names}, in the Coff backend data structure. The flag controls the generation of long section names in output BFDs at runtime; if it is false, as it will be by default when generating an executable image, long section names are truncated; if true, the long section names extension is employed. The hook points to a function that allows the value of a copy of the flag in coff object tdata to be altered at runtime, on formats that support long section names at all; on other formats it points to a stub that returns an error indication. With input BFDs, the flag is set according to whether any long section names are detected while reading the section headers. For a completely new BFD, the flag is set to the default for the target format. This information can be used by a client of the BFD library when deciding what output format to generate, and means that a BFD that is opened for read and subsequently converted to a writeable BFD and modified in-place will retain whatever format it had on input. If @code{COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES} is simply defined (blank), or is defined to the value "1", then long section names are enabled by default; if it is defined to the value zero, they are disabled by default (but still accepted in input BFDs). The header @file{coffcode.h} defines a macro, @code{COFF_DEFAULT_LONG_SECTION_NAMES}, which is used in the backends to initialise the backend data structure fields appropriately; see the comments for further detail. SUBSUBSECTION Bit twiddling Each flavour of coff supported in BFD has its own header file describing the external layout of the structures. There is also an internal description of the coff layout, in @file{coff/internal.h}. A major function of the coff backend is swapping the bytes and twiddling the bits to translate the external form of the structures into the normal internal form. This is all performed in the @code{bfd_swap}_@i{thing}_@i{direction} routines. Some elements are different sizes between different versions of coff; it is the duty of the coff version specific include file to override the definitions of various packing routines in @file{coffcode.h}. E.g., the size of line number entry in coff is sometimes 16 bits, and sometimes 32 bits. @code{#define}ing @code{PUT_LNSZ_LNNO} and @code{GET_LNSZ_LNNO} will select the correct one. No doubt, some day someone will find a version of coff which has a varying field size not catered to at the moment. To port BFD, that person will have to add more @code{#defines}. Three of the bit twiddling routines are exported to @code{gdb}; @code{coff_swap_aux_in}, @code{coff_swap_sym_in} and @code{coff_swap_lineno_in}. @code{GDB} reads the symbol table on its own, but uses BFD to fix things up. More of the bit twiddlers are exported for @code{gas}; @code{coff_swap_aux_out}, @code{coff_swap_sym_out}, @code{coff_swap_lineno_out}, @code{coff_swap_reloc_out}, @code{coff_swap_filehdr_out}, @code{coff_swap_aouthdr_out}, @code{coff_swap_scnhdr_out}. @code{Gas} currently keeps track of all the symbol table and reloc drudgery itself, thereby saving the internal BFD overhead, but uses BFD to swap things on the way out, making cross ports much safer. Doing so also allows BFD (and thus the linker) to use the same header files as @code{gas}, which makes one avenue to disaster disappear. SUBSUBSECTION Symbol reading The simple canonical form for symbols used by BFD is not rich enough to keep all the information available in a coff symbol table. The back end gets around this problem by keeping the original symbol table around, "behind the scenes". When a symbol table is requested (through a call to @code{bfd_canonicalize_symtab}), a request gets through to @code{coff_get_normalized_symtab}. This reads the symbol table from the coff file and swaps all the structures inside into the internal form. It also fixes up all the pointers in the table (represented in the file by offsets from the first symbol in the table) into physical pointers to elements in the new internal table. This involves some work since the meanings of fields change depending upon context: a field that is a pointer to another structure in the symbol table at one moment may be the size in bytes of a structure at the next. Another pass is made over the table. All symbols which mark file names (<<C_FILE>> symbols) are modified so that the internal string points to the value in the auxent (the real filename) rather than the normal text associated with the symbol (@code{".file"}). At this time the symbol names are moved around. Coff stores all symbols less than nine characters long physically within the symbol table; longer strings are kept at the end of the file in the string table. This pass moves all strings into memory and replaces them with pointers to the strings. The symbol table is massaged once again, this time to create the canonical table used by the BFD application. Each symbol is inspected in turn, and a decision made (using the @code{sclass} field) about the various flags to set in the @code{asymbol}. @xref{Symbols}. The generated canonical table shares strings with the hidden internal symbol table. Any linenumbers are read from the coff file too, and attached to the symbols which own the functions the linenumbers belong to. SUBSUBSECTION Symbol writing Writing a symbol to a coff file which didn't come from a coff file will lose any debugging information. The @code{asymbol} structure remembers the BFD from which the symbol was taken, and on output the back end makes sure that the same destination target as source target is present. When the symbols have come from a coff file then all the debugging information is preserved. Symbol tables are provided for writing to the back end in a vector of pointers to pointers. This allows applications like the linker to accumulate and output large symbol tables without having to do too much byte copying. This function runs through the provided symbol table and patches each symbol marked as a file place holder (@code{C_FILE}) to point to the next file place holder in the list. It also marks each @code{offset} field in the list with the offset from the first symbol of the current symbol. Another function of this procedure is to turn the canonical value form of BFD into the form used by coff. Internally, BFD expects symbol values to be offsets from a section base; so a symbol physically at 0x120, but in a section starting at 0x100, would have the value 0x20. Coff expects symbols to contain their final value, so symbols have their values changed at this point to reflect their sum with their owning section. This transformation uses the <<output_section>> field of the @code{asymbol}'s @code{asection} @xref{Sections}. o <<coff_mangle_symbols>> This routine runs though the provided symbol table and uses the offsets generated by the previous pass and the pointers generated when the symbol table was read in to create the structured hierarchy required by coff. It changes each pointer to a symbol into the index into the symbol table of the asymbol. o <<coff_write_symbols>> This routine runs through the symbol table and patches up the symbols from their internal form into the coff way, calls the bit twiddlers, and writes out the table to the file. */ /*INTERNAL_DEFINITION coff_symbol_type DESCRIPTION The hidden information for an <<asymbol>> is described in a <<combined_entry_type>>: CODE_FRAGMENT.typedef struct coff_ptr_struct.{. {* Remembers the offset from the first symbol in the file for. this symbol. Generated by coff_renumber_symbols. *}. unsigned int offset;.. {* Selects between the elements of the union below. *}. unsigned int is_sym : 1;.. {* Selects between the elements of the x_sym.x_tagndx union. If set,. p is valid and the field will be renumbered. *}. unsigned int fix_tag : 1;.. {* Selects between the elements of the x_sym.x_fcnary.x_fcn.x_endndx. union. If set, p is valid and the field will be renumbered. *}. unsigned int fix_end : 1;.. {* Selects between the elements of the x_csect.x_scnlen union. If set,. p is valid and the field will be renumbered. *}. unsigned int fix_scnlen : 1;.. {* If set, u.syment.n_value contains a pointer to a symbol. The final. value will be the offset field. Used for XCOFF C_BSTAT symbols. *}. unsigned int fix_value : 1;.. {* If set, u.syment.n_value is an index into the line number entries.. Used for XCOFF C_BINCL/C_EINCL symbols. *}. unsigned int fix_line : 1;.. {* The container for the symbol structure as read and translated. from the file. *}. union. {. union internal_auxent auxent;. struct internal_syment syment;. } u;.. {* An extra pointer which can used by format based on COFF (like XCOFF). to provide extra information to their backend. *}. void *extrap;.} combined_entry_type;..{* Each canonical asymbol really looks like this: *}..typedef struct coff_symbol_struct.{. {* The actual symbol which the rest of BFD works with *}. asymbol symbol;.. {* A pointer to the hidden information for this symbol *}. combined_entry_type *native;.. {* A pointer to the linenumber information for this symbol *}. struct lineno_cache_entry *lineno;.. {* Have the line numbers been relocated yet ? *}. bool done_lineno;.} coff_symbol_type;.*/ #include "libiberty.h"#include <string.h> #ifdef COFF_WITH_PE#include "peicode.h"#else#include "coffswap.h"#endif #define STRING_SIZE_SIZE 4 #define DOT_DEBUG ".debug"#define DOT_ZDEBUG ".zdebug"#define GNU_LINKONCE_WI ".gnu.linkonce.wi."#define GNU_LINKONCE_WT ".gnu.linkonce.wt."#define DOT_RELOC ".reloc" #if defined(COFF_WITH_PE) || defined(COFF_GO32_EXE) || defined(COFF_GO32)# define COFF_WITH_EXTENDED_RELOC_COUNTER#endif #if defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES)/* Needed to expand the inputs to BLANKOR1TOODD. */#define COFFLONGSECTIONCATHELPER(x,y) x ## y/* If the input macro Y is blank or '1', return an odd number; if it is '0', return an even number. Result undefined in all other cases. */#define BLANKOR1TOODD(y) COFFLONGSECTIONCATHELPER(1,y)/* Defined to numerical 0 or 1 according to whether generation of long section names is disabled or enabled by default. */#define COFF_ENABLE_LONG_SECTION_NAMES (BLANKOR1TOODD(COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) & 1)/* Where long section names are supported, we allow them to be enabled and disabled at runtime, so select an appropriate hook function for _bfd_coff_set_long_section_names. */#define COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES_SETTER bfd_coff_set_long_section_names_allowed#else /* !defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) *//* If long section names are not supported, this stub disallows any attempt to enable them at run-time. */#define COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES_SETTER bfd_coff_set_long_section_names_disallowed#endif /* defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) */ /* Define a macro that can be used to initialise both the fields relating to long section names in the backend data struct simultaneously. */#if COFF_ENABLE_LONG_SECTION_NAMES#define COFF_DEFAULT_LONG_SECTION_NAMES (true), COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES_SETTER#else /* !COFF_ENABLE_LONG_SECTION_NAMES */#define COFF_DEFAULT_LONG_SECTION_NAMES (false), COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES_SETTER#endif /* COFF_ENABLE_LONG_SECTION_NAMES */ static enum coff_symbol_classification coff_classify_symbol (bfd *, struct internal_syment *);/* void warning(); */ #if defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES)static boolbfd_coff_set_long_section_names_allowed (bfd *abfd, int enable){ bfd_coff_long_section_names (abfd) = enable; return true;}#else /* !defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) */static boolbfd_coff_set_long_section_names_disallowed (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, int enable ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED){ return false;}#endif /* defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) */ /* Return a word with STYP_* (scnhdr.s_flags) flags set to represent the incoming SEC_* flags. The inverse of this function is styp_to_sec_flags(). NOTE: If you add to/change this routine, you should probably mirror the changes in styp_to_sec_flags(). */ #ifndef COFF_WITH_PE /* Macros for setting debugging flags. */ #ifdef STYP_DEBUG#define STYP_XCOFF_DEBUG STYP_DEBUG#else#define STYP_XCOFF_DEBUG STYP_INFO#endif #ifdef COFF_ALIGN_IN_S_FLAGS#define STYP_DEBUG_INFO STYP_DSECT#else#define STYP_DEBUG_INFO STYP_INFO#endif static longsec_to_styp_flags (const char *sec_name, flagword sec_flags){ long styp_flags = 0; if (!strcmp (sec_name, _TEXT)) { styp_flags = STYP_TEXT; } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _DATA)) { styp_flags = STYP_DATA; } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _BSS)) { styp_flags = STYP_BSS;#ifdef _COMMENT } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _COMMENT)) { styp_flags = STYP_INFO;#endif /* _COMMENT */#ifdef _LIB } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _LIB)) { styp_flags = STYP_LIB;#endif /* _LIB */#ifdef _LIT } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _LIT)) { styp_flags = STYP_LIT;#endif /* _LIT */ } else if (startswith (sec_name, DOT_DEBUG) || startswith (sec_name, DOT_ZDEBUG)) { /* Handle the XCOFF debug section and DWARF2 debug sections. */ if (!sec_name[6]) styp_flags = STYP_XCOFF_DEBUG; else styp_flags = STYP_DEBUG_INFO; } else if (startswith (sec_name, ".stab")) { styp_flags = STYP_DEBUG_INFO; }#ifdef COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES else if (startswith (sec_name, GNU_LINKONCE_WI) || startswith (sec_name, GNU_LINKONCE_WT)) { styp_flags = STYP_DEBUG_INFO; }#endif#ifdef RS6000COFF_C else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _TDATA))Lines 1–500 of 6267. 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/* Support for the generic parts of most COFF variants, for BFD. Copyright (C) 1990-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Cygnus Support. This file is part of BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ /* Most of this hacked by Steve Chamberlain, sac@cygnus.com. */ /* SECTION coff backends BFD supports a number of different flavours of coff format. The major differences between formats are the sizes and alignments of fields in structures on disk, and the occasional extra field. Coff in all its varieties is implemented with a few common files and a number of implementation specific files. For example, the i386 coff format is implemented in the file @file{coff-i386.c}. This file @code{#include}s @file{coff/i386.h} which defines the external structure of the coff format for the i386, and @file{coff/internal.h} which defines the internal structure. @file{coff-i386.c} also defines the relocations used by the i386 coff format @xref{Relocations}. SUBSECTION Porting to a new version of coff The recommended method is to select from the existing implementations the version of coff which is most like the one you want to use. For example, we'll say that i386 coff is the one you select, and that your coff flavour is called foo. Copy @file{i386coff.c} to @file{foocoff.c}, copy @file{../include/coff/i386.h} to @file{../include/coff/foo.h}, and add the lines to @file{targets.c} and @file{Makefile.in} so that your new back end is used. Alter the shapes of the structures in @file{../include/coff/foo.h} so that they match what you need. You will probably also have to add @code{#ifdef}s to the code in @file{coff/internal.h} and @file{coffcode.h} if your version of coff is too wild. You can verify that your new BFD backend works quite simply by building @file{objdump} from the @file{binutils} directory, and making sure that its version of what's going on and your host system's idea (assuming it has the pretty standard coff dump utility, usually called @code{att-dump} or just @code{dump}) are the same. Then clean up your code, and send what you've done to Cygnus. Then your stuff will be in the next release, and you won't have to keep integrating it. SUBSECTION How the coff backend works SUBSUBSECTION File layout The Coff backend is split into generic routines that are applicable to any Coff target and routines that are specific to a particular target. The target-specific routines are further split into ones which are basically the same for all Coff targets except that they use the external symbol format or use different values for certain constants. The generic routines are in @file{coffgen.c}. These routines work for any Coff target. They use some hooks into the target specific code; the hooks are in a @code{bfd_coff_backend_data} structure, one of which exists for each target. The essentially similar target-specific routines are in @file{coffcode.h}. This header file includes executable C code. The various Coff targets first include the appropriate Coff header file, make any special defines that are needed, and then include @file{coffcode.h}. Some of the Coff targets then also have additional routines in the target source file itself. SUBSUBSECTION Coff long section names In the standard Coff object format, section names are limited to the eight bytes available in the @code{s_name} field of the @code{SCNHDR} section header structure. The format requires the field to be NUL-padded, but not necessarily NUL-terminated, so the longest section names permitted are a full eight characters. The Microsoft PE variants of the Coff object file format add an extension to support the use of long section names. This extension is defined in section 4 of the Microsoft PE/COFF specification (rev 8.1). If a section name is too long to fit into the section header's @code{s_name} field, it is instead placed into the string table, and the @code{s_name} field is filled with a slash ("/") followed by the ASCII decimal representation of the offset of the full name relative to the string table base. Note that this implies that the extension can only be used in object files, as executables do not contain a string table. The standard specifies that long section names from objects emitted into executable images are to be truncated. However, as a GNU extension, BFD can generate executable images that contain a string table and long section names. This would appear to be technically valid, as the standard only says that Coff debugging information is deprecated, not forbidden, and in practice it works, although some tools that parse PE files expecting the MS standard format may become confused; @file{PEview} is one known example. The functionality is supported in BFD by code implemented under the control of the macro @code{COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES}. If not defined, the format does not support long section names in any way. If defined, it is used to initialise a flag, @code{_bfd_coff_long_section_names}, and a hook function pointer, @code{_bfd_coff_set_long_section_names}, in the Coff backend data structure. The flag controls the generation of long section names in output BFDs at runtime; if it is false, as it will be by default when generating an executable image, long section names are truncated; if true, the long section names extension is employed. The hook points to a function that allows the value of a copy of the flag in coff object tdata to be altered at runtime, on formats that support long section names at all; on other formats it points to a stub that returns an error indication. With input BFDs, the flag is set according to whether any long section names are detected while reading the section headers. For a completely new BFD, the flag is set to the default for the target format. This information can be used by a client of the BFD library when deciding what output format to generate, and means that a BFD that is opened for read and subsequently converted to a writeable BFD and modified in-place will retain whatever format it had on input. If @code{COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES} is simply defined (blank), or is defined to the value "1", then long section names are enabled by default; if it is defined to the value zero, they are disabled by default (but still accepted in input BFDs). The header @file{coffcode.h} defines a macro, @code{COFF_DEFAULT_LONG_SECTION_NAMES}, which is used in the backends to initialise the backend data structure fields appropriately; see the comments for further detail. SUBSUBSECTION Bit twiddling Each flavour of coff supported in BFD has its own header file describing the external layout of the structures. There is also an internal description of the coff layout, in @file{coff/internal.h}. A major function of the coff backend is swapping the bytes and twiddling the bits to translate the external form of the structures into the normal internal form. This is all performed in the @code{bfd_swap}_@i{thing}_@i{direction} routines. Some elements are different sizes between different versions of coff; it is the duty of the coff version specific include file to override the definitions of various packing routines in @file{coffcode.h}. E.g., the size of line number entry in coff is sometimes 16 bits, and sometimes 32 bits. @code{#define}ing @code{PUT_LNSZ_LNNO} and @code{GET_LNSZ_LNNO} will select the correct one. No doubt, some day someone will find a version of coff which has a varying field size not catered to at the moment. To port BFD, that person will have to add more @code{#defines}. Three of the bit twiddling routines are exported to @code{gdb}; @code{coff_swap_aux_in}, @code{coff_swap_sym_in} and @code{coff_swap_lineno_in}. @code{GDB} reads the symbol table on its own, but uses BFD to fix things up. More of the bit twiddlers are exported for @code{gas}; @code{coff_swap_aux_out}, @code{coff_swap_sym_out}, @code{coff_swap_lineno_out}, @code{coff_swap_reloc_out}, @code{coff_swap_filehdr_out}, @code{coff_swap_aouthdr_out}, @code{coff_swap_scnhdr_out}. @code{Gas} currently keeps track of all the symbol table and reloc drudgery itself, thereby saving the internal BFD overhead, but uses BFD to swap things on the way out, making cross ports much safer. Doing so also allows BFD (and thus the linker) to use the same header files as @code{gas}, which makes one avenue to disaster disappear. SUBSUBSECTION Symbol reading The simple canonical form for symbols used by BFD is not rich enough to keep all the information available in a coff symbol table. The back end gets around this problem by keeping the original symbol table around, "behind the scenes". When a symbol table is requested (through a call to @code{bfd_canonicalize_symtab}), a request gets through to @code{coff_get_normalized_symtab}. This reads the symbol table from the coff file and swaps all the structures inside into the internal form. It also fixes up all the pointers in the table (represented in the file by offsets from the first symbol in the table) into physical pointers to elements in the new internal table. This involves some work since the meanings of fields change depending upon context: a field that is a pointer to another structure in the symbol table at one moment may be the size in bytes of a structure at the next. Another pass is made over the table. All symbols which mark file names (<<C_FILE>> symbols) are modified so that the internal string points to the value in the auxent (the real filename) rather than the normal text associated with the symbol (@code{".file"}). At this time the symbol names are moved around. Coff stores all symbols less than nine characters long physically within the symbol table; longer strings are kept at the end of the file in the string table. This pass moves all strings into memory and replaces them with pointers to the strings. The symbol table is massaged once again, this time to create the canonical table used by the BFD application. Each symbol is inspected in turn, and a decision made (using the @code{sclass} field) about the various flags to set in the @code{asymbol}. @xref{Symbols}. The generated canonical table shares strings with the hidden internal symbol table. Any linenumbers are read from the coff file too, and attached to the symbols which own the functions the linenumbers belong to. SUBSUBSECTION Symbol writing Writing a symbol to a coff file which didn't come from a coff file will lose any debugging information. The @code{asymbol} structure remembers the BFD from which the symbol was taken, and on output the back end makes sure that the same destination target as source target is present. When the symbols have come from a coff file then all the debugging information is preserved. Symbol tables are provided for writing to the back end in a vector of pointers to pointers. This allows applications like the linker to accumulate and output large symbol tables without having to do too much byte copying. This function runs through the provided symbol table and patches each symbol marked as a file place holder (@code{C_FILE}) to point to the next file place holder in the list. It also marks each @code{offset} field in the list with the offset from the first symbol of the current symbol. Another function of this procedure is to turn the canonical value form of BFD into the form used by coff. Internally, BFD expects symbol values to be offsets from a section base; so a symbol physically at 0x120, but in a section starting at 0x100, would have the value 0x20. Coff expects symbols to contain their final value, so symbols have their values changed at this point to reflect their sum with their owning section. This transformation uses the <<output_section>> field of the @code{asymbol}'s @code{asection} @xref{Sections}. o <<coff_mangle_symbols>> This routine runs though the provided symbol table and uses the offsets generated by the previous pass and the pointers generated when the symbol table was read in to create the structured hierarchy required by coff. It changes each pointer to a symbol into the index into the symbol table of the asymbol. o <<coff_write_symbols>> This routine runs through the symbol table and patches up the symbols from their internal form into the coff way, calls the bit twiddlers, and writes out the table to the file. */ /* INTERNAL_DEFINITION coff_symbol_type DESCRIPTION The hidden information for an <<asymbol>> is described in a <<combined_entry_type>>: CODE_FRAGMENT .typedef struct coff_ptr_struct .{ . {* Remembers the offset from the first symbol in the file for . this symbol. Generated by coff_renumber_symbols. *} . unsigned int offset; . . {* Selects between the elements of the union below. *} . unsigned int is_sym : 1; . . {* Selects between the elements of the x_sym.x_tagndx union. If set, . p is valid and the field will be renumbered. *} . unsigned int fix_tag : 1; . . {* Selects between the elements of the x_sym.x_fcnary.x_fcn.x_endndx . union. If set, p is valid and the field will be renumbered. *} . unsigned int fix_end : 1; . . {* Selects between the elements of the x_csect.x_scnlen union. If set, . p is valid and the field will be renumbered. *} . unsigned int fix_scnlen : 1; . . {* If set, u.syment.n_value contains a pointer to a symbol. The final . value will be the offset field. Used for XCOFF C_BSTAT symbols. *} . unsigned int fix_value : 1; . . {* If set, u.syment.n_value is an index into the line number entries. . Used for XCOFF C_BINCL/C_EINCL symbols. *} . unsigned int fix_line : 1; . . {* The container for the symbol structure as read and translated . from the file. *} . union . { . union internal_auxent auxent; . struct internal_syment syment; . } u; . . {* An extra pointer which can used by format based on COFF (like XCOFF) . to provide extra information to their backend. *} . void *extrap; .} combined_entry_type; . .{* Each canonical asymbol really looks like this: *} . .typedef struct coff_symbol_struct .{ . {* The actual symbol which the rest of BFD works with *} . asymbol symbol; . . {* A pointer to the hidden information for this symbol *} . combined_entry_type *native; . . {* A pointer to the linenumber information for this symbol *} . struct lineno_cache_entry *lineno; . . {* Have the line numbers been relocated yet ? *} . bool done_lineno; .} coff_symbol_type; . */ #include "libiberty.h" #include <string.h> #ifdef COFF_WITH_PE #include "peicode.h" #else #include "coffswap.h" #endif #define STRING_SIZE_SIZE 4 #define DOT_DEBUG ".debug" #define DOT_ZDEBUG ".zdebug" #define GNU_LINKONCE_WI ".gnu.linkonce.wi." #define GNU_LINKONCE_WT ".gnu.linkonce.wt." #define DOT_RELOC ".reloc" #if defined(COFF_WITH_PE) || defined(COFF_GO32_EXE) || defined(COFF_GO32) # define COFF_WITH_EXTENDED_RELOC_COUNTER #endif #if defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) /* Needed to expand the inputs to BLANKOR1TOODD. */ #define COFFLONGSECTIONCATHELPER(x,y) x ## y /* If the input macro Y is blank or '1', return an odd number; if it is '0', return an even number. Result undefined in all other cases. */ #define BLANKOR1TOODD(y) COFFLONGSECTIONCATHELPER(1,y) /* Defined to numerical 0 or 1 according to whether generation of long section names is disabled or enabled by default. */ #define COFF_ENABLE_LONG_SECTION_NAMES (BLANKOR1TOODD(COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) & 1) /* Where long section names are supported, we allow them to be enabled and disabled at runtime, so select an appropriate hook function for _bfd_coff_set_long_section_names. */ #define COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES_SETTER bfd_coff_set_long_section_names_allowed #else /* !defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) */ /* If long section names are not supported, this stub disallows any attempt to enable them at run-time. */ #define COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES_SETTER bfd_coff_set_long_section_names_disallowed #endif /* defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) */ /* Define a macro that can be used to initialise both the fields relating to long section names in the backend data struct simultaneously. */ #if COFF_ENABLE_LONG_SECTION_NAMES #define COFF_DEFAULT_LONG_SECTION_NAMES (true), COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES_SETTER #else /* !COFF_ENABLE_LONG_SECTION_NAMES */ #define COFF_DEFAULT_LONG_SECTION_NAMES (false), COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES_SETTER #endif /* COFF_ENABLE_LONG_SECTION_NAMES */ static enum coff_symbol_classification coff_classify_symbol (bfd *, struct internal_syment *); /* void warning(); */ #if defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) static bool bfd_coff_set_long_section_names_allowed (bfd *abfd, int enable) { bfd_coff_long_section_names (abfd) = enable; return true; } #else /* !defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) */ static bool bfd_coff_set_long_section_names_disallowed (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, int enable ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) { return false; } #endif /* defined (COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES) */ /* Return a word with STYP_* (scnhdr.s_flags) flags set to represent the incoming SEC_* flags. The inverse of this function is styp_to_sec_flags(). NOTE: If you add to/change this routine, you should probably mirror the changes in styp_to_sec_flags(). */ #ifndef COFF_WITH_PE /* Macros for setting debugging flags. */ #ifdef STYP_DEBUG #define STYP_XCOFF_DEBUG STYP_DEBUG #else #define STYP_XCOFF_DEBUG STYP_INFO #endif #ifdef COFF_ALIGN_IN_S_FLAGS #define STYP_DEBUG_INFO STYP_DSECT #else #define STYP_DEBUG_INFO STYP_INFO #endif static long sec_to_styp_flags (const char *sec_name, flagword sec_flags) { long styp_flags = 0; if (!strcmp (sec_name, _TEXT)) { styp_flags = STYP_TEXT; } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _DATA)) { styp_flags = STYP_DATA; } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _BSS)) { styp_flags = STYP_BSS; #ifdef _COMMENT } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _COMMENT)) { styp_flags = STYP_INFO; #endif /* _COMMENT */ #ifdef _LIB } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _LIB)) { styp_flags = STYP_LIB; #endif /* _LIB */ #ifdef _LIT } else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _LIT)) { styp_flags = STYP_LIT; #endif /* _LIT */ } else if (startswith (sec_name, DOT_DEBUG) || startswith (sec_name, DOT_ZDEBUG)) { /* Handle the XCOFF debug section and DWARF2 debug sections. */ if (!sec_name[6]) styp_flags = STYP_XCOFF_DEBUG; else styp_flags = STYP_DEBUG_INFO; } else if (startswith (sec_name, ".stab")) { styp_flags = STYP_DEBUG_INFO; } #ifdef COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES else if (startswith (sec_name, GNU_LINKONCE_WI) || startswith (sec_name, GNU_LINKONCE_WT)) { styp_flags = STYP_DEBUG_INFO; } #endif #ifdef RS6000COFF_C else if (!strcmp (sec_name, _TDATA))