Re: [PATCH] Fix type and alignment of ARM/Thumb EABI mapping symbols

[Julian Brown <julian@codesourcery.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 09:25:49PM +0100, Julian Brown wrote:
> 
>>In the interest of preserving existing behaviour, I have fixed this by 
>>adding a new disassemble_info hook which allows the symbol table used 
>>for disassembly to have a target-specific hook for altering each symbol 
>>(or remove it) in the remove_useless_symbols function. This sets the 
>>BSF_FUNCTION flag for mapping symbols, which makes things behave the way 
>>they used to, and possibly provides useful functionality for other 
>>platforms as well.
> 
> How about checking bfd_is_target_special_symbol in remove_useless_syms?

To remove the mapping symbols altogether? That would make sense, but the 
output of objdump would still be altered then -- my patch doesn't 
actually remove the mapping symbols in remove_useless_symbols, just 
munges their type. This was the best way I could come up with to 
preserve existing behaviour without affecting other platforms, but I 
suspect it might be trying too hard (it is "only" disassembled output 
which is affected, presumably meant for human consumption).

Julian