From 469984d1f66a2e91f530aa266759ae8d8d1abf8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 17:44:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 	* libecoff.h (ecoff_data_type): Add linker field. 
 * ecoff.c (ecoff_write_object_contents): Check new tdata linker 	field,
 rather than outsymbols being non-NULL, to decide whether to 	output the
 symbols and relocs. 	(ecoff_bfd_final_link): Set new tdata linker field to
 true.

---
 bfd/ChangeLog  |  6 ++++++
 bfd/ecoff.c    | 11 ++++++-----
 bfd/libecoff.h |  5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index c5658916ab..f5eb440b40 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 Mon Jun  6 10:57:28 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)
 
+	* libecoff.h (ecoff_data_type): Add linker field.
+	* ecoff.c (ecoff_write_object_contents): Check new tdata linker
+	field, rather than outsymbols being non-NULL, to decide whether to
+	output the symbols and relocs.
+	(ecoff_bfd_final_link): Set new tdata linker field to true.
+
 	* ecoff.c (ecoff_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data): Don't try to copy
 	data to a non-ECOFF file.
 
diff --git a/bfd/ecoff.c b/bfd/ecoff.c
index 64661cdd18..2555c0cbd9 100644
--- a/bfd/ecoff.c
+++ b/bfd/ecoff.c
@@ -2918,11 +2918,10 @@ ecoff_write_object_contents (abfd)
     goto error_return;
 
   /* Build the external symbol information.  This must be done before
-     writing out the relocs so that we know the symbol indices.  The
-     condition checks makes sure this object was not created by
-     ecoff_bfd_final_link, since if it was we do not want to tamper
-     with the external symbols.  */
-  if (bfd_get_outsymbols (abfd) != (asymbol **) NULL)
+     writing out the relocs so that we know the symbol indices.  We
+     don't do this if this BFD was created by the backend linker,
+     since it will have already handled the symbols and relocs.  */
+  if (! ecoff_data (abfd)->linker)
     {
       symhdr->iextMax = 0;
       symhdr->issExtMax = 0;
@@ -4388,6 +4387,8 @@ ecoff_bfd_final_link (abfd, info)
 
   bfd_get_symcount (abfd) = symhdr->iextMax + symhdr->isymMax;
 
+  ecoff_data (abfd)->linker = true;
+
   return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/bfd/libecoff.h b/bfd/libecoff.h
index a017d6e210..0d20c4ba74 100644
--- a/bfd/libecoff.h
+++ b/bfd/libecoff.h
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ typedef struct ecoff_tdata
      linking.  */
   asection **symndx_to_section;
 
+  /* True if this BFD was written by the backend linker.  */
+  boolean linker;
+
 } ecoff_data_type;
 
 /* Each canonical asymbol really looks like this.  */
@@ -233,7 +236,7 @@ extern boolean ecoff_get_section_contents PARAMS ((bfd *abfd,
 						   file_ptr offset,
 						   bfd_size_type count));
 
-#define ecoff_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data _bfd_generic_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data
+extern boolean ecoff_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data PARAMS ((bfd *, bfd *));
 #define ecoff_bfd_copy_private_section_data \
   _bfd_generic_bfd_copy_private_section_data
 
-- 
2.34.1