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Re: synthetic symtab on bfd

Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Symbols that aren't in the object file, but BFD can infer and finds
> useful.  For instance, most platforms don't put a symbol on each PLT
> entry.  But disassembly is more useful if it says "branch to
> memcpy@plt" instead of "branch to _init - 0x54".

Interesting, thanks.

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PMatos
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