reducing reloc syms to section syms

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> Is there any benefit in reducing just some relocs using a given symbol
> to the section symbol, and not others?

It's slightly faster to compute a relocation against a section symbol,
since it doesn't require a symbol lookup and doesn't require the
various cases which can arise with a symbol.  This is particularly
true if the relocation becomes a dynamic relocation.

Ian