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RE: [committed, PATCH] Always create dynsym section with dynamic sections
- From: Faraz Shahbazker <Faraz dot Shahbazker at imgtec dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 21:49:28 +0000
- Subject: RE: [committed, PATCH] Always create dynsym section with dynamic sections
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On 04/22/2016 12:28 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Faraz Shahbazker
>> + if (dynsymcount != 0 || elf_hash_table (info)->dynamic_sections_created)
>> + ++dynsymcount;
>
> Are you saying dynamic_sections_created is 0 for MIPS here
> and will become 1 later?
No, it will remain 0. The link is static, but the hash_table is still used to
record global symbols that have GOT relocations against them. Ofc, this
hash_table does not result in creation of a dynsym section, because well,
dynamic_sections_created is 0.
Check the list of callers to bfd_elf_link_record_dynamic_symbol(), a number of
architectures use the link_hash_table in situations where it is not clear whether it is
being used to track dynamic symbols for a dynamic executable, as it is for x86.
Regards,
Faraz Shahbazker