.symtab behaviour query

[Cary Coutant]

>> I have a question about binutils behaviour w.r.t the binding of symbols in
>> the .symtab section in a linked elf.
>
> I am sorry that your question has gone unanswered for so long.

Actually,  Ben's question did get answered over on the generic-abi
mailing list. (He mentioned that he had also posted the question here,
but I didn't find it here because he used a different email address
and a different subject line.)

-cary