unreferenced local symbols generated in .dynsym

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

> > You're right, it is possible to use a local symbol in .dynsym.
> > However, if you need one such symbol, you probably need more than one,
> 
> Why?  Isn't one enough, converting any difference to addend?  It doesn't
> matter to me if the local symbol is a section symbol or another flavor,
> but I would like there to be only one.

Hmmm, you're right.  You should only need one symbol per section at
most, even without using section symbols.

Anyhow, I think we agree that the problem reduces to the same issue.
It's entirely doable, it's just that somebody has to do it.

Ian