RFC: Use ELF strtab functions create .strtab section

[Andreas Schwab]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> "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.

But it can easily be fixed in the kernel.

Andreas.

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