[PATCH] readelf: print section names when dump the symbol table
Fangrui Song
i@maskray.me
Wed Apr 21 23:59:45 GMT 2021
On 2021-04-21, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote:
>Hi Luo,
>
> This is a good idea, but your implementation had two drawbacks.
> Firstly some MIPS targets do provide names for their section symbols,
> and in such cases the provided name should be used.
>
> Secondly the change introduces a lot of new failures into the gas, ld
> and binutils testsuites, as the additional output is not matched by
> the regular expressions being used.
>
> I have therefore amended your patch to the one attached and applied
> that.
>
>Cheers
> Nick
>
This is great and improves compatibility with llvm-readelf which does
this since https://reviews.llvm.org/D58796
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