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Re: About hidden & local symbols


   Hello Ulrich, thanks a lot for the reply.

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> But hidden symbols shouldn't be in the dynamic symbol table and only symbols 
> in the dynamic symbol table have version symbol information associated.

   Right! Sorry, I didn't see the hidden symbols were under .symtab, 
really sorry!

>> - `Version symbol' entries are greater than 1 if and only if the
>> concerned library(or DSO) uses symbol versioning.
>
> Yes. But there is no version definition section at all if symbol versioning 
> is not used.

   Yes true.

> A symbol that is referenced and uses a PLT slot will use the well-defined 
> symbol lookup path.  That's the whole point of ELF symbol lookup.  Read
>
>  http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
> section 1.5.4.

   Sure, I'll do that.

Thanks so much.
--
Regards
   - Prasad

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