From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:40:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * archive.c (_bfd_write_archive_contents): Add an informative
X-Git-Tag: newlib-1_9_0~1569
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8000a61811b6463a514ce66e62e678398ffb3868;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git

* archive.c (_bfd_write_archive_contents): Add an informative
comment.
---

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 1bb9e574f1a..8b826aceae6 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-07-07  DJ Delorie  <dj@redhat.com>
+
+	* archive.c (_bfd_write_archive_contents): Add an informative
+	comment.
+
 2000-07-06  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@hxi.com>
 
 	* srec.c: Fix formatting.
diff --git a/bfd/archive.c b/bfd/archive.c
index 6fe5997b7ab..0297c2958ee 100644
--- a/bfd/archive.c
+++ b/bfd/archive.c
@@ -1684,6 +1684,11 @@ _bfd_write_archive_contents (arch)
      then construct a fresh ar_hdr for them.  */
   for (current = arch->archive_head; current; current = current->next)
     {
+      /* This check is checking the bfds for the objects we're reading
+	 from (which are usually either an object file or archive on
+	 disk), not the archive entries we're writing to.  We don't
+	 actually create bfds for the archive members, we just copy
+	 them byte-wise when we write out the archive.  */
       if (bfd_write_p (current))
 	{
 	  bfd_set_error (bfd_error_invalid_operation);