"Create a symbol table"

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:16:06PM -0700, Xinan Tang wrote:
> 
>   Basically the symbol table has only one symbol, "foo_symbol".
> However, once using `objdump' to dump the symbol table, it says
> no symbols.
> 
> __________________________________________
> >./objdump -t foo_obj.o
> 
> foo_obj.o:     file format elf32-little
> 
> ./objdump: foo_obj.o: no symbols
> _______________________________________
> 
>  What did go wrong?

The first entry of a symbol table is reserved.