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Re: name collision for ELF reloc sections


Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com> writes:

|>   The patch solves this problem by making elf_fake_section look for
|>   ".rel." as the start of a name of a REL section (and similarly
|>   ".rela." for the start of a name of a RELA section).  Looking for
|>   the extra period guarantees that the section name cannot have been
|>   generated from a real C/C++ function name, but I do not know if this
|>   is safe.  Is it possible to generate an ELF rel or rela section that
|>   starts with .rel{a} but which does not have a second period
|>   immediately following it ?

Yes.  Any relocation section that is associated with a section whose name
does not start with a period will have such a name.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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