From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: synthetic symtab on bfd
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101101160205.GA28366@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86aaltkpwb.fsf@pm18pc01.europe.root.pri>
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 03:46:44PM +0000, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
>
> On bfd there's a function (which doesn't seem to be documented):
> - bfd_get_synthetic_symtab
>
> What is this synthetic symbol table?
Symbols that aren't in the object file, but BFD can infer and finds
useful. For instance, most platforms don't put a symbol on each PLT
entry. But disassembly is more useful if it says "branch to
memcpy@plt" instead of "branch to _init - 0x54".
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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2010-11-01 15:50 Paulo J. Matos
2010-11-01 16:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2010-11-01 18:18 ` Paulo J. Matos
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