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Re: redefining dynamic symbols???
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:49:52AM -0700, Jorge Luis Williams wrote:
> > You'd need to examine the existing code in objcopy that does
> > --redefine-sym and switch symbol table reading and writing to use
> > the dynamic symbol table.
> >
>
> I thought about doing this, however I was under the understanding that
> this wouldn't work because I would also need to recompute the .hash
> section
Ouch. I didn't think of that. You'll find you need to copy/write
quite a lot of code to do what you want. Much easier to recompile
whatever applications/shared libs you're trying to tweak.
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Alan Modra
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