mips-elf regressions

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:20:58PM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Aren't section symbols always local ?

Usually, but the standard doesn't prohibit global section symbols.
See http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-07/msg00494.html

>  If so we could also classify symbols
> into section symbols, local and non-local (thought for a future  
> improvement).

Yes, for standard ELF:
  local section, local, all others
For Irix compat:
  local section, global section, local, all others.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM