RFA: Don't canonicalize STT_SECTION syms
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Sat Dec 11 04:34:00 GMT 2004
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 02:50:43PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > so I assume there is more.
>
> Yeah.
>
> bfd/ChangeLog
> * elfcode.h (elf_slurp_symbol_table): Use bfd_elf_sym_name so that
> canonical sections syms have a name.
Could you explain why this change is necessary? It's not going back to
the same place we were before, and I find this...
> -0+00 l d foo 0+0
> +0+00 l d foo 0+0 (|foo)
to be pretty confusing, since IIRC an undefined reference to foo
shouldn't be resolved to that symbol, if the ELF symbol's name is
empty.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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