Re: RFA: Don't canonicalize STT_SECTION syms

[Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:34:26PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 02:50:43PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > so I assume there is more.
> > 
> > Yeah.
> > 
> > bfd/ChangeLog
> > 	* elfcode.h (elf_slurp_symbol_table): Use bfd_elf_sym_name so that
> > 	canonical sections syms have a name.
> 
> Could you explain why this change is necessary?  It's not going back to
> the same place we were before, and I find this...

Well, you either have this change, revert your change that stopped use
of the section symbol for relocs, or introduce some elf dependecy into
objdump.  Otherwise objdump -r won't display a name for relocs against
section syms.

> > -0+00 l    d  foo	0+0 
> > +0+00 l    d  foo	0+0 (|foo)
> 
> to be pretty confusing, since IIRC an undefined reference to foo
> shouldn't be resolved to that symbol, if the ELF symbol's name is
> empty.

How is this different from other local symbols?

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Alan Modra
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