Re: meaning of this objdump output?

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:39:56PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >     49% objdump -t -C -j .bss libstdc++.so | grep _S_free_list
> >     0009d640 g     O .bss   00000080              std::__de[ trim long name ]
> > 
> > isn't similar, doesn't correspond, and isn't documented.  My coworkers
> > could figure out the address field (obvious), and the ".bss" and "00000080"
> > fields were obvious to me, but none of us can tell what the "g" and "O" are.
> 
> The 'g' is Global, and the 'O' is Object.  This really needs to be
> better documented :)

"better" implies that some kind of documentation already exists.  :-)
If you could point me to it, I could probably figure out the other pairs
of letters that we're seeing.  Shoot, for that matter, where's the code that
maps <thing> to <letter>?

Phil

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