From: ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Subject: Re: ld bug
4 Jul 1998 09:51:15 -0700
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   From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru>
   Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 19:49:48 +0400

   It's possible now to compile/run an executable with user-defined sections, but now I see a problem with strip...

I think this bug has always been there--I don't think it had anything
to do with my linker changs.  strip fails to handle long section
names.  I think this patch fixes it.

Ian

Index: coffcode.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/cvsfiles/devo/bfd/coffcode.h,v
retrieving revision 1.320
diff -u -p -r1.320 coffcode.h
--- coffcode.h	1998/06/30 10:02:19	1.320
+++ coffcode.h	1998/07/04 16:25:18
@@ -3058,6 +3058,15 @@ coff_write_object_contents (abfd)
       if (! coff_write_relocs (abfd, firstundef))
 	return false;
     }
+#ifdef COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES
+  else if (long_section_names)
+    {
+      /* If we have long section names we have to write out the string
+         table even if there are no symbols.  */
+      if (! coff_write_symbols (abfd))
+	return false;
+    }
+#endif
 #ifdef COFF_IMAGE_WITH_PE
 #ifdef PPC_PE
   else if ((abfd->flags & EXEC_P) != 0)