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      1 /* Accumulation of various pieces of knowledge about ELF.
      2    Copyright (C) 2000-2012, 2014 Red Hat, Inc.
      3    This file is part of elfutils.
      4    Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper (at) redhat.com>, 2000.
      5 
      6    This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
      7    it under the terms of either
      8 
      9      * the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
     10        Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
     11        your option) any later version
     12 
     13    or
     14 
     15      * the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
     16        Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
     17        your option) any later version
     18 
     19    or both in parallel, as here.
     20 
     21    elfutils is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
     22    WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     23    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
     24    General Public License for more details.
     25 
     26    You should have received copies of the GNU General Public License and
     27    the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program.  If
     28    not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
     29 
     30 #ifndef _ELF_KNOWLEDGE_H
     31 #define _ELF_KNOWLEDGE_H	1
     32 
     33 #include <stdbool.h>
     34 
     35 
     36 /* Test whether a section can be stripped or not.  */
     37 #define SECTION_STRIP_P(shdr, name, remove_comment) \
     38   /* Sections which are allocated are not removed.  */			      \
     39   (((shdr)->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) == 0					      \
     40    /* We never remove .note sections.  */				      \
     41    && (shdr)->sh_type != SHT_NOTE					      \
     42    && (((shdr)->sh_type) != SHT_PROGBITS				      \
     43        /* Never remove .gnu.warning.* sections.  */			      \
     44        || (name != NULL							      \
     45 	   && strncmp (name, ".gnu.warning.", sizeof ".gnu.warning." - 1) != 0\
     46 	   /* We remove .comment sections only if explicitly told to do so. */\
     47 	   && (remove_comment						      \
     48 	       || strcmp (name, ".comment") != 0))))
     49 
     50 
     51 /* Test whether `sh_info' field in section header contains a section
     52    index.  There are two kinds of sections doing this:
     53 
     54    - the sections containing relocation information reference in this
     55      field the section to which the relocations apply;
     56 
     57    - section with the SHF_INFO_LINK flag set to signal that `sh_info'
     58      references a section.  This allows correct handling of unknown
     59      sections.  */
     60 #define SH_INFO_LINK_P(Shdr) \
     61   ((Shdr)->sh_type == SHT_REL || (Shdr)->sh_type == SHT_RELA		      \
     62    || ((Shdr)->sh_flags & SHF_INFO_LINK) != 0)
     63 
     64 
     65 /* When combining ELF section flags we must distinguish two kinds:
     66 
     67    - flags which cause problem if not added to the result even if not
     68      present in all input sections
     69 
     70    - flags which cause problem if added to the result if not present
     71      in all input sections
     72 
     73    The following definition is for the general case.  There might be
     74    machine specific extensions.  */
     75 #define SH_FLAGS_COMBINE(Flags1, Flags2) \
     76   (((Flags1 | Flags2)							      \
     77     & (SHF_WRITE | SHF_ALLOC | SHF_EXECINSTR | SHF_LINK_ORDER		      \
     78        | SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING | SHF_GROUP))				      \
     79    | (Flags1 & Flags2 & (SHF_MERGE | SHF_STRINGS | SHF_INFO_LINK)))
     80 
     81 /* Similar macro: return the bits of the flags which necessarily must
     82    match if two sections are automatically combined.  Sections still
     83    can be forcefully combined in which case SH_FLAGS_COMBINE can be
     84    used to determine the combined flags.  */
     85 #define SH_FLAGS_IMPORTANT(Flags) \
     86   ((Flags) & ~((GElf_Xword) 0 | SHF_LINK_ORDER | SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING))
     87 
     88 
     89 /* Size of an entry in the hash table.  The ELF specification says all
     90    entries are regardless of platform 32-bits in size.  Early 64-bit
     91    ports (namely Alpha for Linux) got this wrong.  The wording was not
     92    clear.
     93 
     94    Several years later the ABI for the 64-bit S390s was developed.
     95    Many things were copied from the IA-64 ABI (which uses the correct
     96    32-bit entry size) but what do these people do?  They use 64-bit
     97    entries.  It is really shocking to see what kind of morons are out
     98    there.  And even worse: they are allowed to design ABIs.  */
     99 #define SH_ENTSIZE_HASH(Ehdr) \
    100   ((Ehdr)->e_machine == EM_ALPHA					      \
    101    || ((Ehdr)->e_machine == EM_S390					      \
    102        && (Ehdr)->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64) ? 8 : 4)
    103 
    104 #endif	/* elf-knowledge.h */
    105