[PATCH 2/2] readelf: Use section names for displaying RELR relocs
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Wed May 29 09:56:08 GMT 2024
Hi Szabolcs,
> In some cases using section names instead of symbol names for
> displaying an address is more useful.
>
> If the symbol falls outside the section where the address is
> then likely it is not useful to display the address relative to.
>
> And if symbols are stripped from a binary then printing the
> section that contains the address is more useful than printing
> <no sym>.
That makes sense. I just have one question:
> + /* Only display section names that follow the '.' convention. */
> + && section_name (filedata, sec)[0] == '.')
Why have this restriction ? What is wrong with section names that
do not follow the convention ?
Cheers
Nick
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