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/* Accumulation of various pieces of knowledge about ELF.
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 Red Hat, Inc.
This file is part of Red Hat elfutils.
Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, 2000.
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#ifndef _ELF_KNOWLEDGE_H
#define _ELF_KNOWLEDGE_H 1
#include <stdbool.h>
/* Test whether a section can be stripped or not. */
#define SECTION_STRIP_P(shdr, name, remove_comment) \
/* Sections which are allocated are not removed. */ \
(((shdr)->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) == 0 \
/* We never remove .note sections. */ \
&& (shdr)->sh_type != SHT_NOTE \
&& (((shdr)->sh_type) != SHT_PROGBITS \
/* Never remove .gnu.warning.* sections. */ \
|| (strncmp (name, ".gnu.warning.", sizeof ".gnu.warning." - 1) != 0 \
/* We remove .comment sections only if explicitly told to do so. */\
&& (remove_comment \
|| strcmp (name, ".comment") != 0))) \
/* So far we do not remove any of the non-standard sections. \
XXX Maybe in future. */ \
&& (shdr)->sh_type < SHT_NUM)
/* Test whether `sh_info' field in section header contains a section
index. There are two kinds of sections doing this:
- the sections containing relocation information reference in this
field the section to which the relocations apply;
- section with the SHF_INFO_LINK flag set to signal that `sh_info'
references a section. This allows correct handling of unknown
sections. */
#define SH_INFO_LINK_P(Shdr) \
((Shdr)->sh_type == SHT_REL || (Shdr)->sh_type == SHT_RELA \
|| ((Shdr)->sh_flags & SHF_INFO_LINK) != 0)
/* When combining ELF section flags we must distinguish two kinds:
- flags which cause problem if not added to the result even if not
present in all input sections
- flags which cause problem if added to the result if not present
in all input sections
The following definition is for the general case. There might be
machine specific extensions. */
#define SH_FLAGS_COMBINE(Flags1, Flags2) \
(((Flags1 | Flags2) \
& (SHF_WRITE | SHF_ALLOC | SHF_EXECINSTR | SHF_LINK_ORDER \
| SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING | SHF_GROUP)) \
| (Flags1 & Flags2 & (SHF_MERGE | SHF_STRINGS | SHF_INFO_LINK)))
/* Similar macro: return the bits of the flags which necessarily must
match if two sections are automatically combined. Sections still
can be forcefully combined in which case SH_FLAGS_COMBINE can be
used to determine the combined flags. */
#define SH_FLAGS_IMPORTANT(Flags) \
((Flags) & ~((GElf_Xword) 0 | SHF_LINK_ORDER | SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING))
/* Size of an entry in the hash table. The ELF specification says all
entries are regardless of platform 32-bits in size. Early 64-bit
ports (namely Alpha for Linux) got this wrong. The wording was not
clear.
Several years later the ABI for the 64-bit S390s was developed.
Many things were copied from the IA-64 ABI (which uses the correct
32-bit entry size) but what do these people do? They use 64-bit
entries. It is really shocking to see what kind of morons are out
there. And even worse: they are allowed to design ABIs. */
#define SH_ENTSIZE_HASH(Ehdr) \
((Ehdr)->e_machine == EM_ALPHA \
|| ((Ehdr)->e_machine == EM_S390 \
&& (Ehdr)->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64) ? 8 : 4)
#endif /* elf-knowledge.h */