name collision for ELF reloc sections
Andreas Schwab
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de
Thu Jul 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999
Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com> writes:
|> The patch solves this problem by making elf_fake_section look for
|> ".rel." as the start of a name of a REL section (and similarly
|> ".rela." for the start of a name of a RELA section). Looking for
|> the extra period guarantees that the section name cannot have been
|> generated from a real C/C++ function name, but I do not know if this
|> is safe. Is it possible to generate an ELF rel or rela section that
|> starts with .rel{a} but which does not have a second period
|> immediately following it ?
Yes. Any relocation section that is associated with a section whose name
does not start with a period will have such a name.
Andreas.
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