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RE: [Mips}Using DT tags for handling local ifuncs
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Jack Carter <Jack dot Carter at imgtec dot com>
- Cc: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford at googlemail dot com>, "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Doug Gilmore <Doug dot Gilmore at imgtec dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:04:49 +0000
- Subject: RE: [Mips}Using DT tags for handling local ifuncs
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2013, Jack Carter wrote:
> By the way, being able to dump the GOT and see the symbolic name for the
> function the entry represents is really nice for the extremely small set
> of folks that have to work on this stuff. I cannot come up with a good
> business case for its support, but when I had it at SGI it really made
> it easier to debug GOT related issues. Just saying.
Are you talking about `readelf -A' output by any chance? I agree, that
can be very useful at times.
Maciej