Don't try to create a bfd section for the first ELF section header table

entry, since it is just a placeholder with no name.

bfd/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Nov  9 13:45:01 1991  Fred Fish  (fnf at cygnus.com)
+
+	* elf.c (elf_object_p):  Don't try to create a bfd section for
+	the first ELF section header.  It is just a placeholder.
+
 Sat Nov  9 03:04:26 1991  John Gilmore  (gnu at cygnus.com)
 
 	* coff-rs6000.c, config/mh-rs6000:  Make it work on archive and

bfd/elf.c

@@ -412,9 +412,10 @@ wrong:
     }
   
   /* Once all of the section headers have been read and converted, we
-     can start processing them. */
+     can start processing them.  Note that the first section header is
+     a dummy placeholder entry, so we ignore it. */
 
-  for (shindex = 0; shindex < i_ehdr.e_shnum; shindex++)
+  for (shindex = 1; shindex < i_ehdr.e_shnum; shindex++)
     {
       bfd_section_from_shdr (abfd, i_shdr + shindex, shstrtab);
     }
@@ -701,7 +702,7 @@ DEFUN (elf_sizeof_headers, (abfd, reloc),
 #define elf_openr_next_archived_file	bfd_generic_openr_next_archived_file
 #define elf_generic_stat_arch_elt	bfd_generic_stat_arch_elt
 #define	elf_write_armap			(PROTO (boolean, (*),		\
-     (bfd *arch, unsigned int elength, struct orl *map, int orl_count,	\
+     (bfd *arch, unsigned int elength, struct orl *map, unsigned int orl_count,	\
       int stridx))) bfd_false
 
 /* Ordinary section reading and writing */