COMMITTED: Add support for STT_IFUNC
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Thu Dec 4 08:34:00 GMT 2008
Hi Daniel,
>> Plus objdump and readelf will append "()" to relocs which are made
>> against STT_IFUNC symbols, as a hint that the relocation invokes a
>> function:
>>
>> RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.text]:
>> OFFSET TYPE VALUE
>> 00000009 R_386_32 .rodata
>> 0000009f R_386_PC32 ifunction()
>
> This is ambiguous w.r.t. C++ demangling. Maybe *ifunction? Still,
> technically, ambiguous but less likely.
Well it is just a visual hint and I am a C coder at heart, so I think
that I will things as they are.
Cheers
Nick
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