From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, drepper@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Dealing with broken ELF libraries
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 06:55:00 -0000
Message-id: <19990902135533.8501.qmail@daffy.airs.com>
References: <23914.936225419@upchuck.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-09/msg00009.html

   Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 16:36:59 -0600
   From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>

   We might be able to do something like recognize that LINK refers to a section
   that is not of type STRTAB (and then fall back to looking for .dynsym's
   string table).

I don't know what else would work.

Note that we already do workarounds like that in other cases.  For
example, the Oracle libraries on Solaris have a similar bug (or at
least they used to): the link field of the SHT_RELA sections does not
point to the appropriate symbol table.  You can see the workaround in
bfd_section_from_shdr in bfd/elf.c.

Ian