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Re: unreferenced local symbols generated in .dynsym
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:13:40 -0700
- Subject: Re: unreferenced local symbols generated in .dynsym
I am probably missing something. I don't see why section symbols are ever
useful in .dynsym. The layout is fixed by the time that's being made, so
relocs to sections can be converted to R_*_RELATIVE. If there are relocs
of other types that require a symbol and can't be converted (non-wordsize
relocs for some architectures and so forth), then they can still be
converted to be relative to a single local symbol in .dynsym.