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Re: relaxing and elf local syms

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:47:13PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > elf_tdata (input_bfd)->symtab_hdr.contents can be used to save modified
> > internal syms for input_bfd.
> 
> I did that.  Many times.  It gets ignored, it seems.
> 
> Or... "I'm doing something wrong".
> 
> If you look in bfd_elf_get_elf_syms, it doesn't check to see if the
> syms are already loaded.  Yet, everyone seems to use that function to
> load syms.

No, but see elflink.c:6796.  elf_link_input_bfd uses the cached copy
instead of calling bfd_elf_get_elf_syms.  Perhaps some other places need
similar code?

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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