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Re: [RFC] Symbol meta-information ELF extension
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Jozef Lawrynowicz <jozef dot l at mittosystems dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:58:02 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Symbol meta-information ELF extension
- References: <20200218102515.54ab5fff@jozef-kubuntu>
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:26 AM Jozef Lawrynowicz
<jozef.l@mittosystems.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been working with Texas Instruments to develop an ELF extension which
> allows additional information about symbols ("symbol meta-information") to
> be stored in ELF files, in a section called .symtab_meta.
>
> The aim of symbol meta-information is to provide a extensible format for
> propagating additional information about symbols from the source code through to
> the link stage.
>
> I hope I can get some feedback on this proposal, and its current implementation,
> from the upstream community so I can make any adjustments required for the
> eventual upstreaming of this feature.
Have you looked at Solaris syminfo section
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E26507/chapter7-17.html
Can you extend it to do what you want?
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H.J.