From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: SHN_XINDEX support is broken
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050206220740.GC23954@bubble.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050206181859.GA28251@lucon.org>
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:18:59AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> I have been looking at the change. I am not 100% sure if it will be
> always correct. Will the symbol table be read in by SHT_REL/SHT_RELA?
Yes. elf.c:1940
/* Get the symbol table. */
if ((elf_elfsections (abfd)[hdr->sh_link]->sh_type == SHT_SYMTAB
|| elf_elfsections (abfd)[hdr->sh_link]->sh_type == SHT_DYNSYM)
&& ! bfd_section_from_shdr (abfd, hdr->sh_link))
return FALSE;
> What if a file doesn't have them and does have SHT_GROUP?
group_signature loads the symbol table.
elf.c:450
/* First we need to ensure the symbol table is available. */
if (! bfd_section_from_shdr (abfd, ghdr->sh_link))
return NULL;
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-06 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-06 7:14 H. J. Lu
2005-02-06 7:24 ` PATCH: " H. J. Lu
2005-02-06 10:04 ` H. J. Lu
2005-02-06 15:03 ` Alan Modra
2005-02-07 2:30 ` H. J. Lu
2005-02-07 3:41 ` H. J. Lu
2005-02-07 16:01 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2005-02-06 10:02 ` H. J. Lu
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