bfd/

2008-01-07  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>

	PR ld/5522
	* elflink.c (elf_link_input_bfd): Don't write out a section if
	its output section is marked with SEC_NEVER_LOAD.

ld/testsuite/

2008-01-07  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>

	PR ld/5522
	* ld-elf/noload-3.d: New file.
	* ld-elf/noload-3.s: Likewise.
	* ld-elf/noload-3.t: Likewise.

bfd/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-01-07  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
+	PR ld/5522
+	* elflink.c (elf_link_input_bfd): Don't write out a section if
+	its output section is marked with SEC_NEVER_LOAD.
+
 For older changes see ChangeLog-2007
 
 Local Variables:

bfd/elflink.c

@@ -9511,6 +9511,7 @@ elf_link_input_bfd (struct elf_final_link_info *finfo, bfd *input_bfd)
 	default:
 	  {
 	    if (! (o->flags & SEC_EXCLUDE)
+		&& ! (o->output_section->flags & SEC_NEVER_LOAD)
 		&& ! bfd_set_section_contents (output_bfd, o->output_section,
 					       contents,
 					       (file_ptr) o->output_offset,

ld/testsuite/ld-elf/noload-3.d

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#ld: -T noload-3.t
+#objdump: -s -j .foo1
+
+#...
+Contents of section .foo1:
+ [0-9a-f]+ [0-9a-f]+ [0-9a-f]+ [0-9a-f]+ [0-9a-f]+[ \t]+This is a test.*
+#pass

ld/testsuite/ld-elf/noload-3.s

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+	.section .foo2,"aw",%progbits
+	.byte 1
+	.section .foo1,"w",%progbits
+	.string "This is a test."
+	.section .foo,"aw",%progbits
+	.space 16

ld/testsuite/ld-elf/noload-3.t

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+SECTIONS
+{
+  .foo2 : { *(.foo2) }
+  .foo1 : { *(.foo1) }
+  .foo (NOLOAD) : { *(.foo) }
+  /DISCARD/ : { *(*) }
+}