[PATCH/RFC] Map .coment/.note to BSD/POSIX symbol types

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Jun 3 17:46:00 GMT 2003


Hi Elias,

>> Approved - please apply.
>
> Could you do this for be, because I don't have CVS write access?

Done.
  
>> Please also update binutuls/doc/binutils.texi where it describes the
>> output of the nm command.
>
> I don't think this is necessary. The current documentation is right with
> this change. The sections .comment and .note can be thought of as debugging
> symbols and we use lowercase 'n' just as we do with sections such as .bss
> (we mark it with lowercase 'b', not 'B').

Ah - good point.

>> Please also update binutils/NEWS to mention this new feature of nm.
>
> Done.

Patch also applied.

Cheers
        Nick



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