Effects of Static Local Variable Relocations not reduced to Section Symbols?

[Narendra Kiran Chinnam <narendrakiran at yahoo dot co dot in>]

Due to a project Iam working on, I need to make sure
that the local static variable relocations are not 
reduced to section symbols. 
For eg,

ex.c
-----

static s1=5;
static s2;
 
main()
{
        static int s3 = 1;
        static int s4;


	s1=1;
	s2=2;
	s3=3;
	s4=4;
}


[root@localhost gasTesting]# gcc -c ex.c

[root@localhost gasTesting]# readelf -r ex.o
 
Relocation section '.rel.text' at offset 0x334
contains 5 entries:
 Offset     Info    Type            Sym.Value  Sym.
Name
00000012  00000b01 R_386_32          00000004   i
0000001c  00000301 R_386_32          00000000   .data
00000026  00000401 R_386_32          00000000   .bss
00000030  00000301 R_386_32          00000000   .data
0000003a  00000401 R_386_32          00000000   .bss


When the same code is compiled with the modified gas,
I could watch the static variable names in the
relocation information just as in the case of global
variables.

Relocation section '.rel.text' at offset 0x334
contains 5 entries:
 Offset     Info    Type            Sym.Value  Sym.
Name
00000012  00000b01 R_386_32          00000004   i
0000001c  00000501 R_386_32          00000000   s1
00000026  00000801 R_386_32          00000004   s2
00000030  00000601 R_386_32          00000004   s3.0
0000003a  00000701 R_386_32          00000000   s4.1


I have modified 'symbols.c' to achieve this

int
S_FORCE_RELOC (s)
     symbolS *s;
{
  if (LOCAL_SYMBOL_CHECK (s))
    return ((struct local_symbol *) s)->lsy_section ==
undefined_section;

  return ((s->bsym->flags & BSF_WEAK) != 0
	  || (EXTERN_FORCE_RELOC
	      && (s->bsym->flags & BSF_GLOBAL) != 0)
	  || s->bsym->section == undefined_section
	  || bfd_is_com_section (s->bsym->section)
    	  || 1)); //MY STUFF
}


I was successful running some sample programs compiled
with the modified gas, but apache crashed giving
segmentation fault (seemed to went wrong in ld.so but
not sure). Does this modification have any side
effects? 
Thanks, in advance.


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