Re: name collision for ELF reloc sections

[Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>]

Hi Andreas,

: From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
: 
: Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com> writes:
: 
: |>   The patch solves this problem by making elf_fake_section look for
: |>   ".rel." as the start of a name of a REL section (and similarly
: |>   ".rela." for the start of a name of a RELA section).  Looking for
: |>   the extra period guarantees that the section name cannot have been
: |>   generated from a real C/C++ function name, but I do not know if this
: |>   is safe.  Is it possible to generate an ELF rel or rela section that
: |>   starts with .rel{a} but which does not have a second period
: |>   immediately following it ?
: 
: Yes.  Any relocation section that is associated with a section whose name
: does not start with a period will have such a name.
: 
: Andreas.

Darn.  OK - I know that the normal convention is to have all (ELF)
section names start with a period.  Does anyone know of any toolchains
which break this convention ?  (And which might have a reloc section
associated with such a section) ?

I have already commited my patch, so I would like to find out if I
have broken anything ... :-)

Cheers
	Nick