RFC: Use ELF strtab functions create .strtab section

[Andreas Schwab]

"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:

> This patch uses ELF strtab functions to create .strtab section.  Symbol
> strings with the same suffixes are merged.  There is some small memory
> overhead to use ELF strtab functions:

This breaks module loading in the powerpc64 kernel.  See dedotify in
arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c.

usbcore: Unknown symbol ci_prepare_to_sleep (err 0)
usbcore: Unknown symbol iffies (err 0)

Andreas.

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