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Re: [objcopy] --redefine-sym on .dynsym section
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Anthony Sharobaiko <anthony at fiord dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:55:03 +1030
- Subject: Re: [objcopy] --redefine-sym on .dynsym section
- References: <20091215122526.GA6780@sarge.fiord.localnet>
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:25:26PM +0300, Anthony Sharobaiko wrote:
> Currently objcopy --redefine-sym works on ELF .symtab section only. In the
> past some efforts have been made to make it work with dynamic symbols
> (e.g. http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-03/msg00266.html). What is the current
> status of this issue? Does anyone plan to implement this functionality?
As far as I'm aware there are no plans on implementing this. You
can't do it if you need to change section sizes (and hence addresses
of following sections).
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM