Group identifier of a comdat group

Jessica Han jessica@cup.hp.com
Tue Jun 4 17:42:00 GMT 2002



>-----Original Message-----
>No, group_signature use the sh_link field of the group section to load
>up the symbol table, then uses sh_info to index into the symbol table.
>The name field of that particular symbol is read, converted to host
>byte order, then used to find the name string in the string table
>section.
>
That's what I figured out too. I checked on IA64 Linux and IA64 HPUX, the
name field of that particular symbol is always 0, thus the result name
string is always "".  I verified it with debugging objcopy, group_signture
always return "". Any ideas?
Thanks.



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