[PATCH 00/27] bfd/ELF: library interface tidying

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Sat Nov 1 00:00:53 GMT 2025


On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 03:06:18PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> libbfd.so carries way too many symbols in its dynamic symbol table. Also
> from looking at a symbol it's not easily possible to determine whether it
> actually is supposed to be externally available. Start adding more hidden
> attributes in ELF, and start tidying the naming of certain functions there.
> Decreases dynamic symbol table size for an all-targets build by about 10%.

Nice!

-- 
Alan Modra


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