bfd/ChangeLog

* coffgen.c (make_a_section_from_file):  Set the backend long
	section names enable if long section names found on input.
	* coffcode.h:  Extend long section names documentation to match.

binutils/ChangeLog

	* objcopy.c (enum long_section_name_handling):  New enum type.
	(enum command_line_switch):  Add OPTION_LONG_SECTION_NAMES.
	(copy_options[]):  Add entry for --long-section-names option.
	(copy_usage):  Document it.
	(set_long_section_mode):  New subroutine.
	(copy_file):  Call it.
	(copy_main):  Accept OPTION_LONG_SECTION_NAMES and parse arg.
	* doc/binutils.texi:  Update objcopy documentation with details
	of new option.

bfd/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-04-14  Dave Korn  <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
+
+	* coffgen.c (make_a_section_from_file):  Set the backend long
+	section names enable if long section names found on input.
+	* coffcode.h:  Extend long section names documentation to match.
+
 2009-04-08  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
 	* elflink.c (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Warn alternate ELF

bfd/coffcode.h

@@ -153,6 +153,14 @@ SUBSUBSECTION
 	points to a function that allows the value of the flag 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

bfd/coffgen.c

@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ make_a_section_from_file (bfd *abfd,
       char *p;
       const char *strings;
 
+      /* Flag that this BFD uses long names, even though the format might
+         expect them to be off by default.  This won't directly affect the
+         format of any output BFD created from this one, but the information
+         can be used to decide what to do.  */
+      bfd_coff_set_long_section_names (abfd, TRUE);
       memcpy (buf, hdr->s_name + 1, SCNNMLEN - 1);
       buf[SCNNMLEN - 1] = '\0';
       strindex = strtol (buf, &p, 10);

binutils/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+2009-04-14  Dave Korn  <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
+
+	* objcopy.c (enum long_section_name_handling):  New enum type.
+	(enum command_line_switch):  Add OPTION_LONG_SECTION_NAMES.
+	(copy_options[]):  Add entry for --long-section-names option.
+	(copy_usage):  Document it.
+	(set_long_section_mode):  New subroutine.
+	(copy_file):  Call it.
+	(copy_main):  Accept OPTION_LONG_SECTION_NAMES and parse arg.
+	* doc/binutils.texi:  Update objcopy documentation with details
+	of new option.
+
 2009-04-01  Dave Korn  <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
 
 	* dlltool.c (set_dll_name_from_def):  Accept new second arg that

binutils/doc/binutils.texi

@@ -1001,6 +1001,7 @@ objcopy [@option{-F} @var{bfdname}|@option{--target=}@var{bfdname}]
         [@option{--set-section-flags} @var{section}=@var{flags}]
         [@option{--add-section} @var{sectionname}=@var{filename}]
         [@option{--rename-section} @var{oldname}=@var{newname}[,@var{flags}]]
+        [@option{--long-section-names} @{enable,disable,keep@}]
         [@option{--change-leading-char}] [@option{--remove-leading-char}]
         [@option{--reverse-bytes=}@var{num}]
         [@option{--srec-len=}@var{ival}] [@option{--srec-forceS3}]
@@ -1338,6 +1339,18 @@ data you could use the following command line to achieve it:
    <input_binary_file> <output_object_file>
 @end smallexample
 
+@item --long-section-names @{enable,disable,keep@}
+Controls the handling of long section names when processing @code{COFF}
+and @code{PE-COFF} object formats.  The default behaviour, @samp{keep},
+is to preserve long section names if any are present in the input file.
+The @samp{enable} and @samp{disable} options forcibly enable or disable
+the use of long section names in the output object; when @samp{disable}
+is in effect, any long section names in the input object will be truncated.
+The @samp{enable} option will only emit long section names if any are
+present in the inputs; this is mostly the same as @samp{keep}, but it
+is left undefined whether the @samp{enable} option might force the 
+creation of an empty string table in the output file.
+
 @item --change-leading-char
 Some object file formats use special characters at the start of
 symbols.  The most common such character is underscore, which compilers

binutils/objcopy.c

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
 #include "elf-bfd.h"
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include "libbfd.h"
+#include "coff/internal.h"
+#include "libcoff.h"
 
 struct is_specified_symbol_predicate_data
 {
@@ -216,6 +218,18 @@ static bfd_boolean extract_symbol = FALSE;
    of <reverse_bytes> bytes within each output section.  */
 static int reverse_bytes = 0;
 
+/* For Coff objects, we may want to allow or disallow long section names,
+   or preserve them where found in the inputs.  Debug info relies on them.  */
+enum long_section_name_handling
+  {
+    DISABLE,
+    ENABLE,
+    KEEP
+  };
+
+/* The default long section handling mode is to preserve them.
+   This is also the only behaviour for 'strip'.  */
+static enum long_section_name_handling long_section_names = KEEP;
 
 /* 150 isn't special; it's just an arbitrary non-ASCII char value.  */
 enum command_line_switch
@@ -247,6 +261,7 @@ enum command_line_switch
     OPTION_KEEP_SYMBOLS,
     OPTION_LOCALIZE_HIDDEN,
     OPTION_LOCALIZE_SYMBOLS,
+    OPTION_LONG_SECTION_NAMES,
     OPTION_GLOBALIZE_SYMBOL,
     OPTION_GLOBALIZE_SYMBOLS,
     OPTION_KEEPGLOBAL_SYMBOLS,
@@ -340,6 +355,7 @@ static struct option copy_options[] =
   {"localize-hidden", no_argument, 0, OPTION_LOCALIZE_HIDDEN},
   {"localize-symbol", required_argument, 0, 'L'},
   {"localize-symbols", required_argument, 0, OPTION_LOCALIZE_SYMBOLS},
+  {"long-section-names", required_argument, 0, OPTION_LONG_SECTION_NAMES},
   {"no-adjust-warnings", no_argument, 0, OPTION_NO_CHANGE_WARNINGS},
   {"no-change-warnings", no_argument, 0, OPTION_NO_CHANGE_WARNINGS},
   {"only-keep-debug", no_argument, 0, OPTION_ONLY_KEEP_DEBUG},
@@ -470,6 +486,8 @@ copy_usage (FILE *stream, int exit_status)
                                    Set section <name>'s properties to <flags>\n\
      --add-section <name>=<file>   Add section <name> found in <file> to output\n\
      --rename-section <old>=<new>[,<flags>] Rename section <old> to <new>\n\
+     --long-section-names {enable|disable|keep}\n\
+                                   Handle long section names in Coff objects.\n\
      --change-leading-char         Force output format's leading character style\n\
      --remove-leading-char         Remove leading character from global symbols\n\
      --reverse-bytes=<num>         Reverse <num> bytes at a time, in output sections with content\n\
@@ -2025,6 +2043,18 @@ copy_unknown_element:
   rmdir (dir);
 }
 
+static void
+set_long_section_mode (bfd *output_bfd, bfd *input_bfd, enum long_section_name_handling style)
+{
+  /* This is only relevant to Coff targets.  */
+  if (bfd_get_flavour (output_bfd) == bfd_target_coff_flavour)
+    {
+      if (style == KEEP)
+	style = bfd_coff_long_section_names (input_bfd) ? ENABLE : DISABLE;
+      bfd_coff_set_long_section_names (output_bfd, style != DISABLE);
+    }
+}
+
 /* The top-level control.  */
 
 static void
@@ -2073,6 +2103,8 @@ copy_file (const char *input_filename, const char *output_filename,
 	  status = 1;
 	  return;
 	}
+      /* This is a no-op on non-Coff targets.  */
+      set_long_section_mode (obfd, ibfd, long_section_names);
 
       copy_archive (ibfd, obfd, output_target, force_output_target);
     }
@@ -2093,6 +2125,8 @@ copy_file (const char *input_filename, const char *output_filename,
  	  status = 1;
  	  return;
  	}
+      /* This is a no-op on non-Coff targets.  */
+      set_long_section_mode (obfd, ibfd, long_section_names);
 
       if (! copy_object (ibfd, obfd))
 	status = 1;
@@ -3353,6 +3387,17 @@ copy_main (int argc, char *argv[])
 	  add_specific_symbols (optarg, localize_specific_htab);
 	  break;
 
+	case OPTION_LONG_SECTION_NAMES:
+	  if (!strcmp ("enable", optarg))
+	    long_section_names = ENABLE;
+	  else if (!strcmp ("disable", optarg))
+	    long_section_names = DISABLE;
+	  else if (!strcmp ("keep", optarg))
+	    long_section_names = KEEP;
+	  else
+	    fatal (_("unknown long section names option '%s'"), optarg);
+	  break;
+
 	case OPTION_GLOBALIZE_SYMBOLS:
 	  add_specific_symbols (optarg, globalize_specific_htab);
 	  break;