[Bug general/31763] eu-readelf -r is super slow at packed relocation processing

[mark at klomp dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31763

--- Comment #5 from Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #4)
> (In reply to Mark Wielaard from comment #1)
> > But in practice this doesn't actually work for system libraries, since the
> > .symtab is stripped out, so the symbol lookup always fails (even with
> > debuginfo installed, since readelf doesn't do a separate .debug file lookup,
> > you'll have to eu-unstrip the library and debug file). It is super useful
> > for your locally build binaries though.
> 
> Isn't there a compressed symbol table in .gnu_debugdata?

Yes, there is. And that one is searched. But it only contains STT_FUNC symbols
(since the main purpose is to show symbols for backtraces). And the RELR all
seem to be against addresses in SST_OBJECT symbols.

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