"Create a symbol table"

[Xinan Tang]

Hi Alan,

Alan Modra wrote:

> 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.

   The problem is NO symbol at all in the dumped .o file.
   If you trace objdump' execution, you will find out that
the 'bfd->flags' is 0x0 is the problem.

   Therefore, using bfd_set_symtab() alone to set the symbol table
is not enough. What else do we need to do?


Thanks

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