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Re: RFA: Don't canonicalize STT_SECTION syms

On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:29:45PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:38:11AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > 00000000 l    d  *ABS*	00000000 .shstrtab
> > > 00000000 l    d  *ABS*	00000000 .symtab
> > > 00000000 l    d  *ABS*	00000000 .strtab
> > 
> > Hmm, yeah (another note for "weird elf things" volume #37... section
> > symbols not in a section?  how DOES that work?).
> 
> The *ABS* is probably just an artifact caused by these sections not
> having a bfd section.

Oh right.

What's your reaction to having the section symbols print without names,
then objdump adding the section name when it encounters a relocation
against an unnamed section symbol?  I can try to put that together
tomorrow.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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