From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Cc: mklein@dis.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: HPPA/SOM Patch 
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <26537.929345197@upchuck.cygnus.com>
References: <19990605035401.13429.qmail@daffy.airs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-q2/msg00239.html

  In message < 19990605035401.13429.qmail@daffy.airs.com >you write:
  > No, I believe set_symtab must be called before the relocations are
  > written out.
  > 
  > One way to avoid it would be to call symbol_get_bfdsym immediately
  > after creating dummy_symbol, to force it to be converted to a real
  > symbol before set_symtab is called.
  > 
  > Another way would be not use dummy_symbol for this at all, and instead
  > call bfd_create_empty_symbol directly to get something you can set the
  > reloc sym_ptr_ptr field to point to.
What I do not understand (possibly because I haven't read Ian's revamped
code yet) is what we gain by not using bfd_abs_symbol anymore.  ie, what
is the point behind generating some new dummy symbol when we have a suitable
symbol handy?

Or is it the case that bfd_abs_symbol is no longer useable in this manner?

jeff