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Re: [patch] Resolve ppc64 func descriptors as .func (via .opd)
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:40:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patch] Resolve ppc64 func descriptors as .func (via .opd)
On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:30:21 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> But I am not entirely sure what the *shndxp value should point to. I
> guess for an "altered" function symbol it will still always point to the
> function descriptor (.odp) section. So then if the user really cares
> then they can inspect the shndxp value returned to see whether the
> st_value really falls into it (I guess this is just an oddity those on
> function descriptor based arches need to life with). What is your
> opinion here?
My opinion was in the original patch post. It was adjusting *shndxp to the
VMA-matching section (therefore usually the .text section).
> And I am still not really happy about the altered name thing though. I
> really think we should just return the name of the ELF symbol against
> which we resolved the address. Dynamically creating strings seems messy.
Do you care about the name having a dot or do you care about dynamically
creating strings? Those two issues are very separate ones.
Thanks,
Jan