source: patches/binutils-2.17-branch_update-1.patch@ 623ce3c

Submitted By: Robert Connolly <robert at linuxfromscratch dot org> (ashes)
Date: 2006-12-04
Initial Package Version: 2.17
Upstream Status: From Upstream
Origin: cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co \
                -rbinutils-2_17-branch binutils
Description: This is the binutils-2_17-branch (bug fix branch) update,
compared from binutils-2.17-release and binutils-2_17-branch with all
the fluff removed (CVS entries, maintainer files, etc). This patch
should be updated periodically.

diff -Naur binutils-2.17/bfd/bfd-in2.h src/bfd/bfd-in2.h
--- binutils-2.17/bfd/bfd-in2.h 2006-03-25 16:38:42.000000000 -0800
+++ src/bfd/bfd-in2.h   2006-07-18 19:37:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -643,6 +643,12 @@
   DYN_NO_NEEDED = 8
 };
 
+enum notice_asneeded_action {
+  notice_as_needed,
+  notice_not_needed,
+  notice_needed
+};
+
 extern bfd_boolean bfd_elf_record_link_assignment
   (bfd *, struct bfd_link_info *, const char *, bfd_boolean,
    bfd_boolean);
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/bfd/bfd-in.h src/bfd/bfd-in.h
--- binutils-2.17/bfd/bfd-in.h  2006-03-16 04:20:15.000000000 -0800
+++ src/bfd/bfd-in.h    2006-07-18 19:37:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -636,6 +636,12 @@
   DYN_NO_NEEDED = 8
 };
 
+enum notice_asneeded_action {
+  notice_as_needed,
+  notice_not_needed,
+  notice_needed
+};
+
 extern bfd_boolean bfd_elf_record_link_assignment
   (bfd *, struct bfd_link_info *, const char *, bfd_boolean,
    bfd_boolean);
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/bfd/ChangeLog src/bfd/ChangeLog
--- binutils-2.17/bfd/ChangeLog 2006-06-23 11:18:16.000000000 -0700
+++ src/bfd/ChangeLog   2006-08-08 01:19:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+2006-08-08  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+       PR binutils/2724
+       * coffcode.h (coff_new_section_hook): Only modify the section
+       symbol of sections which were created by the user.
+
+2006-07-19  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
+
+       * bfd-in.h (enum notice_asneeded_action): Define.
+       * bfd-in2.h: Regenerate.
+       * elflink.c (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Call linker "notice"
+       function with NULL name for as-needed handling.
+
+2006-07-12  Matthew R. Dempsky  <mrd@alkemio.org>
+
+       * cpu-m68k.c (bfd_m68k_compatible): Handle CPU32.
+
+2006-06-23  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
+
+       * Makefile.am: Clear RELEASE.
+       * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
+
 2006-06-23  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
 
        * configure.in: Update version to 2.17.
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/bfd/coffcode.h src/bfd/coffcode.h
--- binutils-2.17/bfd/coffcode.h        2005-10-25 10:40:09.000000000 -0700
+++ src/bfd/coffcode.h  2006-08-08 01:19:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -1546,9 +1546,6 @@
 static bfd_boolean
 coff_new_section_hook (bfd * abfd, asection * section)
 {
-  combined_entry_type *native;
-  bfd_size_type amt;
-
   section->alignment_power = COFF_DEFAULT_SECTION_ALIGNMENT_POWER;
 
 #ifdef RS6000COFF_C
@@ -1560,27 +1557,34 @@
     section->alignment_power = bfd_xcoff_data_align_power (abfd);
 #endif
 
-  /* Allocate aux records for section symbols, to store size and
-     related info.
-
-     @@ The 10 is a guess at a plausible maximum number of aux entries
-     (but shouldn't be a constant).  */
-  amt = sizeof (combined_entry_type) * 10;
-  native = bfd_zalloc (abfd, amt);
-  if (native == NULL)
-    return FALSE;
-
-  /* We don't need to set up n_name, n_value, or n_scnum in the native
-     symbol information, since they'll be overridden by the BFD symbol
-     anyhow.  However, we do need to set the type and storage class,
-     in case this symbol winds up getting written out.  The value 0
-     for n_numaux is already correct.  */
-
-  native->u.syment.n_type = T_NULL;
-  native->u.syment.n_sclass = C_STAT;
+  /* PR binutils/2724: Only real sections have a symbol that
+     has the coff_symbol_type structure allocated for it.  */
+  if (! bfd_is_const_section (section))
+    {
+      combined_entry_type *native;
+      bfd_size_type amt;
+
+      /* Allocate aux records for section symbols, to store size and
+        related info.
+
+        @@ The 10 is a guess at a plausible maximum number of aux entries
+        (but shouldn't be a constant).  */
+      amt = sizeof (combined_entry_type) * 10;
+      native = bfd_zalloc (abfd, amt);
+      if (native == NULL)
+       return FALSE;
 
-  coffsymbol (section->symbol)->native = native;
+      /* We don't need to set up n_name, n_value, or n_scnum in the native
+        symbol information, since they'll be overridden by the BFD symbol
+        anyhow.  However, we do need to set the type and storage class,
+        in case this symbol winds up getting written out.  The value 0
+        for n_numaux is already correct.  */
+      native->u.syment.n_type = T_NULL;
+      native->u.syment.n_sclass = C_STAT;
 
+      coffsymbol (section->symbol)->native = native;
+    }
+  
   coff_set_custom_section_alignment (abfd, section,
                                     coff_section_alignment_table,
                                     coff_section_alignment_table_size);
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/bfd/cpu-m68k.c src/bfd/cpu-m68k.c
--- binutils-2.17/bfd/cpu-m68k.c        2006-03-25 02:24:27.000000000 -0800
+++ src/bfd/cpu-m68k.c  2006-07-12 05:55:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@
   if (a->mach <= bfd_mach_m68060 && b->mach <= bfd_mach_m68060)
     /* Merge m68k machine. */
     return a->mach > b->mach ? a : b;
+  else if (a->mach == bfd_mach_cpu32 && b->mach == bfd_mach_cpu32)
+    /* CPU32 is compatible with itself. */
+    return a;
   else if (a->mach >= bfd_mach_mcf_isa_a_nodiv
           && b->mach >= bfd_mach_mcf_isa_a_nodiv)
     {
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/bfd/elflink.c src/bfd/elflink.c
--- binutils-2.17/bfd/elflink.c 2006-05-22 08:06:36.000000000 -0700
+++ src/bfd/elflink.c   2006-07-18 19:37:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -3496,6 +3496,13 @@
       if (alloc_mark == NULL)
        goto error_free_vers;
 
+      /* Make a special call to the linker "notice" function to
+        tell it that we are about to handle an as-needed lib.  */
+      if (!(*info->callbacks->notice) (info, NULL, abfd, NULL,
+                                      notice_as_needed))
+       return FALSE;
+
+
       /* Clone the symbol table and sym hashes.  Remember some
         pointers into the symbol table, and dynamic symbol count.  */
       old_hash = (char *) old_tab + tabsize;
@@ -4169,6 +4176,12 @@
            }
        }
 
+      /* Make a special call to the linker "notice" function to
+        tell it that symbols added for crefs may need to be removed.  */
+      if (!(*info->callbacks->notice) (info, NULL, abfd, NULL,
+                                      notice_not_needed))
+       return FALSE;
+
       free (old_tab);
       objalloc_free_block ((struct objalloc *) htab->root.table.memory,
                           alloc_mark);
@@ -4179,6 +4192,9 @@
 
   if (old_tab != NULL)
     {
+      if (!(*info->callbacks->notice) (info, NULL, abfd, NULL,
+                                      notice_needed))
+       return FALSE;
       free (old_tab);
       old_tab = NULL;
     }
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/bfd/Makefile.am src/bfd/Makefile.am
--- binutils-2.17/bfd/Makefile.am       2006-06-23 11:17:17.000000000 -0700
+++ src/bfd/Makefile.am 2006-06-23 13:57:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.9 cygnus
 
 # Uncomment the following line when doing a release.
-RELEASE=y
+# RELEASE=y
 
 INCDIR = $(srcdir)/../include
 CSEARCH = -I. -I$(srcdir) -I$(INCDIR)
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/bfd/version.h src/bfd/version.h
--- binutils-2.17/bfd/version.h 2006-06-23 11:14:41.000000000 -0700
+++ src/bfd/version.h   2006-12-03 15:00:13.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20060623
+#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20061204
 #define BFD_VERSION @bfd_version@
 #define BFD_VERSION_STRING @bfd_version_string@
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/binutils/ChangeLog src/binutils/ChangeLog
--- binutils-2.17/binutils/ChangeLog    2006-06-12 06:05:03.000000000 -0700
+++ src/binutils/ChangeLog      2006-08-15 05:01:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-08-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+       PR binutils/3039
+       * wrstabs.c (stab_tag_type): Initialize 'size'.
+
 2006-06-07  Joseph S. Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
 
        * po/Make-in (pdf, ps): New dummy targets.
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/binutils/wrstabs.c src/binutils/wrstabs.c
--- binutils-2.17/binutils/wrstabs.c    2006-03-16 04:20:16.000000000 -0800
+++ src/binutils/wrstabs.c      2006-08-15 05:01:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -1869,7 +1869,7 @@
 {
   struct stab_write_handle *info = (struct stab_write_handle *) p;
   long index;
-  unsigned int size;
+  unsigned int size = 0;
 
   index = stab_get_struct_index (info, name, id, kind, &size);
   if (index < 0)
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/configure.in src/configure.in
--- binutils-2.17/configure.in  2006-06-23 11:19:53.000000000 -0700
+++ src/configure.in    2006-04-06 14:49:25.000000000 -0700
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 # know that we are building the simulator.
 # binutils, gas and ld appear in that order because it makes sense to run
 # "make check" in that particular order.
-host_tools="byacc flex bison binutils gas ld fixincludes gcc sid sim gdb make patch prms send-pr gprof etc expect dejagnu ash bash bzip2 m4 autoconf automake libtool diff rcs fileutils shellutils time textutils wdiff find uudecode hello tar gzip indent recode release sed utils guile perl gawk findutils gettext zip fastjar gnattools"
+host_tools="texinfo byacc flex bison binutils gas ld fixincludes gcc sid sim gdb make patch prms send-pr gprof etc expect dejagnu ash bash bzip2 m4 autoconf automake libtool diff rcs fileutils shellutils time textutils wdiff find uudecode hello tar gzip indent recode release sed utils guile perl gawk findutils gettext zip fastjar gnattools"
 
 # libgcj represents the runtime libraries only used by gcj.
 libgcj="target-libffi \
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/gas/ChangeLog src/gas/ChangeLog
--- binutils-2.17/gas/ChangeLog 2006-06-12 06:05:03.000000000 -0700
+++ src/gas/ChangeLog   2006-07-18 19:06:08.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-07-19  Mat Hostetter  <mat@lcs.mit.edu>
+
+       * symbols.c (report_op_error): Fix pasto.  Don't use as_bad_where
+       when file and line unknown.
+
 2006-06-07  Joseph S. Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
 
        * po/Make-in (pdf, ps): New dummy targets.
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/gas/symbols.c src/gas/symbols.c
--- binutils-2.17/gas/symbols.c 2006-01-09 09:14:40.000000000 -0800
+++ src/gas/symbols.c   2006-07-18 19:06:08.000000000 -0700
@@ -928,13 +928,11 @@
          && seg_right != undefined_section)
        {
          if (right)
-           as_bad_where (file, line,
-                         _("invalid sections for operation on `%s' and `%s' setting `%s'"),
-                         S_GET_NAME (left), S_GET_NAME (right), S_GET_NAME (symp));
+           as_bad (_("invalid sections for operation on `%s' and `%s' setting `%s'"),
+                   S_GET_NAME (left), S_GET_NAME (right), S_GET_NAME (symp));
          else
-           as_bad_where (file, line,
-                         _("invalid section for operation on `%s' setting `%s'"),
-                         S_GET_NAME (left), S_GET_NAME (symp));
+           as_bad (_("invalid section for operation on `%s' setting `%s'"),
+                   S_GET_NAME (left), S_GET_NAME (symp));
        }
     }
 }
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/ChangeLog src/ld/ChangeLog
--- binutils-2.17/ld/ChangeLog  2006-06-12 06:07:28.000000000 -0700
+++ src/ld/ChangeLog    2006-07-18 19:37:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+2006-07-19  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
+
+       * ld.h (handle_asneeded_cref): Declare.
+       * ldcref.c: Include objalloc.h.
+       (old_table, old_tab, alloc_mark): New variables.
+       (tabsize, entsize, refsize, old_symcount): Likewise.
+       (add_cref): Use bfd_hash_allocate for refs.
+       (handle_asneeded_cref): New function.
+       * ldmain.c (notice): Call handle_asneeded_cref for NULL name.
+
+2006-07-04  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
+
+       Backport:
+       2006-05-19  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
+       * ldlang.c (lang_size_sections_1): Don't check mem regions for
+       os->ignored sections.
+
 2006-06-12  Fred Fish  <fnf@specifix.com>
 
        * emulparams/elf32bmip.sh (OTHER_SECTIONS): Keep the
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/ldcref.c src/ld/ldcref.c
--- binutils-2.17/ld/ldcref.c   2006-03-16 04:20:16.000000000 -0800
+++ src/ld/ldcref.c     2006-07-18 19:37:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include "sysdep.h"
 #include "bfdlink.h"
 #include "libiberty.h"
+#include "objalloc.h"
 
 #include "ld.h"
 #include "ldmain.h"
@@ -101,6 +102,15 @@
 
 static size_t cref_symcount;
 
+/* Used to take a snapshot of the cref hash table when starting to
+   add syms from an as-needed library.  */
+static struct bfd_hash_entry **old_table;
+static unsigned int old_size;
+static void *old_tab;
+static void *alloc_mark;
+static size_t tabsize, entsize, refsize;
+static size_t old_symcount;
+
 /* Create an entry in a cref hash table.  */
 
 static struct bfd_hash_entry *
@@ -165,7 +175,9 @@
 
   if (r == NULL)
     {
-      r = xmalloc (sizeof *r);
+      r = bfd_hash_allocate (&cref_table.root, sizeof *r);
+      if (r == NULL)
+       einfo (_("%X%P: cref alloc failed: %E\n"));
       r->next = h->refs;
       h->refs = r;
       r->abfd = abfd;
@@ -182,6 +194,123 @@
     r->def = TRUE;
 }
 
+/* Called before loading an as-needed library to take a snapshot of
+   the cref hash table, and after we have loaded or found that the
+   library was not needed.  */
+
+bfd_boolean
+handle_asneeded_cref (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+                     enum notice_asneeded_action act)
+{
+  unsigned int i;
+
+  if (!cref_initialized)
+    return TRUE;
+
+  if (act == notice_as_needed)
+    {
+      char *old_ent, *old_ref;
+
+      for (i = 0; i < cref_table.root.size; i++)
+       {
+         struct bfd_hash_entry *p;
+         struct cref_hash_entry *c;
+         struct cref_ref *r;
+
+         for (p = cref_table.root.table[i]; p != NULL; p = p->next)
+           {
+             entsize += cref_table.root.entsize;
+             c = (struct cref_hash_entry *) p;
+             for (r = c->refs; r != NULL; r = r->next)
+               refsize += sizeof (struct cref_hash_entry);
+           }
+       }
+
+      tabsize = cref_table.root.size * sizeof (struct bfd_hash_entry *);
+      old_tab = xmalloc (tabsize + entsize + refsize);
+
+      alloc_mark = bfd_hash_allocate (&cref_table.root, 1);
+      if (alloc_mark == NULL)
+       return FALSE;
+
+      memcpy (old_tab, cref_table.root.table, tabsize);
+      old_ent = (char *) old_tab + tabsize;
+      old_ref = (char *) old_ent + entsize;
+      old_table = cref_table.root.table;
+      old_size = cref_table.root.size;
+      old_symcount = cref_symcount;
+
+      for (i = 0; i < cref_table.root.size; i++)
+       {
+         struct bfd_hash_entry *p;
+         struct cref_hash_entry *c;
+         struct cref_ref *r;
+
+         for (p = cref_table.root.table[i]; p != NULL; p = p->next)
+           {
+             memcpy (old_ent, p, cref_table.root.entsize);
+             old_ent = (char *) old_ent + cref_table.root.entsize;
+             c = (struct cref_hash_entry *) p;
+             for (r = c->refs; r != NULL; r = r->next)
+               {
+                 memcpy (old_ref, r, sizeof (struct cref_hash_entry));
+                 old_ref = (char *) old_ref + sizeof (struct cref_hash_entry);
+               }
+           }
+       }
+      return TRUE;
+    }
+
+  if (act == notice_not_needed)
+    {
+      char *old_ent, *old_ref;
+
+      if (old_tab == NULL)
+       {
+         /* The only way old_tab can be NULL is if the cref hash table
+            had not been initialised when notice_as_needed.  */
+         bfd_hash_table_free (&cref_table.root);
+         cref_initialized = FALSE;
+         return TRUE;
+       }
+
+      old_ent = (char *) old_tab + tabsize;
+      old_ref = (char *) old_ent + entsize;
+      cref_table.root.table = old_table;
+      cref_table.root.size = old_size;
+      memcpy (cref_table.root.table, old_tab, tabsize);
+      cref_symcount = old_symcount;
+
+      for (i = 0; i < cref_table.root.size; i++)
+       {
+         struct bfd_hash_entry *p;
+         struct cref_hash_entry *c;
+         struct cref_ref *r;
+
+         for (p = cref_table.root.table[i]; p != NULL; p = p->next)
+           {
+             memcpy (p, old_ent, cref_table.root.entsize);
+             old_ent = (char *) old_ent + cref_table.root.entsize;
+             c = (struct cref_hash_entry *) p;
+             for (r = c->refs; r != NULL; r = r->next)
+               {
+                 memcpy (r, old_ref, sizeof (struct cref_hash_entry));
+                 old_ref = (char *) old_ref + sizeof (struct cref_hash_entry);
+               }
+           }
+       }
+
+      objalloc_free_block ((struct objalloc *) cref_table.root.memory,
+                          alloc_mark);
+    }
+  else if (act != notice_needed)
+    return FALSE;
+
+  free (old_tab);
+  old_tab = NULL;
+  return TRUE;
+}
+
 /* Copy the addresses of the hash table entries into an array.  This
    is called via cref_hash_traverse.  We also fill in the demangled
    name.  */
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/ld.h src/ld/ld.h
--- binutils-2.17/ld/ld.h       2005-09-30 04:42:04.000000000 -0700
+++ src/ld/ld.h 2006-07-18 19:37:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* ld.h -- general linker header file
    Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
-   2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
+   2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
    Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This file is part of GLD, the Gnu Linker.
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@
 
 extern int yyparse (void);
 extern void add_cref (const char *, bfd *, asection *, bfd_vma);
+extern bfd_boolean handle_asneeded_cref (bfd *, enum notice_asneeded_action);
 extern void output_cref (FILE *);
 extern void check_nocrossrefs (void);
 extern void ld_abort (const char *, int, const char *) ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN;
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/ldlang.c src/ld/ldlang.c
--- binutils-2.17/ld/ldlang.c   2006-06-12 06:05:04.000000000 -0700
+++ src/ld/ldlang.c     2006-07-04 06:29:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -4207,7 +4207,8 @@
                    /* If a loadable section is using the default memory
                       region, and some non default memory regions were
                       defined, issue an error message.  */
-                   if (!IGNORE_SECTION (os->bfd_section)
+                   if (!os->ignored
+                       && !IGNORE_SECTION (os->bfd_section)
                        && ! link_info.relocatable
                        && check_regions
                        && strcmp (os->region->name,
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/ldmain.c src/ld/ldmain.c
--- binutils-2.17/ld/ldmain.c   2006-04-06 11:52:45.000000000 -0700
+++ src/ld/ldmain.c     2006-07-18 19:37:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -1511,6 +1511,13 @@
        asection *section,
        bfd_vma value)
 {
+  if (name == NULL)
+    {
+      if (command_line.cref || nocrossref_list != NULL)
+       return handle_asneeded_cref (abfd, value);
+      return TRUE;
+    }
+
   if (! info->notice_all
       || (info->notice_hash != NULL
          && bfd_hash_lookup (info->notice_hash, name, FALSE, FALSE) != NULL))
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog src/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog
--- binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog        2006-06-12 06:44:33.000000000 -0700
+++ src/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog  2006-07-12 05:55:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+2006-07-12  Richard Sandiford  <richard@codesourcery.com>
+
+       * ld-m68k/merge-ok-1c.d: New test.
+       * ld-m68k/m68k.exp: Run it.
+
+2006-07-04  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
+
+       Backport:
+       2006-05-19  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
+       * ld-scripts/empty-orphan.d: Update again.
+
+       * ld-scripts/empty-orphan.t: Discard .reginfo.
+       * ld-scripts/empty-orphan.d: Update.
+
 2006-06-12  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
 
        Backport:
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-m68k/m68k.exp src/ld/testsuite/ld-m68k/m68k.exp
--- binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-m68k/m68k.exp 2006-03-25 02:24:27.000000000 -0800
+++ src/ld/testsuite/ld-m68k/m68k.exp   2006-07-12 05:55:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -53,3 +53,4 @@
 run_dump_test "merge-error-1e"
 run_dump_test "merge-ok-1a"
 run_dump_test "merge-ok-1b"
+run_dump_test "merge-ok-1c"
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-m68k/merge-ok-1c.d src/ld/testsuite/ld-m68k/merge-ok-1c.d
--- binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-m68k/merge-ok-1c.d    1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ src/ld/testsuite/ld-m68k/merge-ok-1c.d      2006-07-12 05:55:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#source: merge-error-1a.s -march=cpu32
+#source: merge-error-1b.s -march=cpu32
+#ld: -r
+#objdump: -p
+#...
+private flags = 810000: \[cpu32\]
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-orphan.d src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-orphan.d
--- binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-orphan.d        2005-03-17 08:20:39.000000000 -0800
+++ src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-orphan.d  2006-07-04 06:29:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 #source: empty-orphan.s
 #ld: -T empty-orphan.t
-#error: no memory region specified for loadable section
+#readelf: -l --wide
+#...
+ +LOAD +[x0-9a-f]+ [x0]+70000000 [x0]+70000000 [x0]+(2|4|8|10|20|40|80) .*
+#pass
diff -Naur binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-orphan.t src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-orphan.t
--- binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-orphan.t        2005-03-17 08:20:39.000000000 -0800
+++ src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/empty-orphan.t  2006-07-04 06:29:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -17,5 +17,6 @@
    .text : { *(.text) } > text_mem : text_phdr
    .data : { *(.data) } > data_mem : data_phdr
    .bss : { *(.bss) } > data_mem : data_phdr
+   /DISCARD/ : { *(.reginfo) }
    /* .orphan_data is an orphan */
 }