How to reclaim .rela.dyn entries for symbols that become hidden?

[John David Anglin]

> Lets not worry about wether this is optimal (It's not and the fix is to
> change glibc/sysdeps/hppa/start.S to use plabel words so these become 1
> reloc each).
> 
> Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 11 entries:
>    Num:    Value  Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
>      0: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  UND
>      1: 00020b18     0 OBJECT  LOCAL  HIDDEN  ABS __fini_array_end
>      2: 00010770   132 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 __libc_csu_fini
>      3: 00020b18     0 OBJECT  LOCAL  HIDDEN  ABS __fini_array_start
>      4: 000106e0   144 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 __libc_csu_init
>      5: 0001054c    28 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 main
>      6: 00020b18     0 OBJECT  LOCAL  HIDDEN  ABS __init_array_end
>      7: 00020b18     0 OBJECT  LOCAL  HIDDEN  ABS __init_array_start
>      8: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  WEAK   DEFAULT  UND _Jv_RegisterClasses
>      9: 00000000   368 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2 (2)
>     10: 00010884     4 FUNC    WEAK   DEFAULT   11 __gmon_start__
> 
> Let us also not worry why --export-dynamic is the default on hppa.
> Though I may raise such a discussion later, under the flag of "function
> descriptor comparisons."

That's interesting.

> Are these hidden symbols the cuprits of the extra relocs in .rela.dyn,
> or should I be looking elsewhere?

That seems the most likely explanation.  I'm not sure but I don't
think we have these in 2.15.

Dave
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