This is simplified version of patch originally proposed in https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-03/msg00046.html This code will add pretty-printing of PLT entries on ARM, so e.g. instead of Disassembly of section .plt: 00001000 <.plt>: 1000: e52de004 push {lr} ; (str lr, [sp, #-4]!) 1004: e59fe004 ldr lr, [pc, #4] ; 1010 <_start-0x14> 1008: e08fe00e add lr, pc, lr 100c: e5bef008 ldr pc, [lr, #8]! 1010: f00000f0 .word 0xf00000f0 1014: e28fc20f add ip, pc, #-268435456 ; 0xf0000000 1018: e28cc600 add ip, ip, #0, 12 101c: e28cca00 add ip, ip, #0, 20 1020: e5bcf0f0 ldr pc, [ip, #240]! ; 0xf0 objdump will now output a much more convenient message: Disassembly of section .plt: 00001000 : 1000: e52de004 push {lr} ; (str lr, [sp, #-4]!) 1004: e59fe004 ldr lr, [pc, #4] ; 1010 1008: e08fe00e add lr, pc, lr 100c: e5bef008 ldr pc, [lr, #8]! 1010: f00000f0 .word 0xf00000f0 00001014 : 1014: e28fc20f add ip, pc, #-268435456 ; 0xf0000000 1018: e28cc600 add ip, ip, #0, 12 101c: e28cca00 add ip, ip, #0, 20 1020: e5bcf0f0 ldr pc, [ip, #240]! ; 0xf0 Instead of abusing elf_backend_plt_sym_val I overloaded bfd_elf32_get_synthetic_symtab (per Pavel's advice). This has significantly shortened the patch. I got no regressions for host-only tests on arm-{gnueabi,eabi,nacl,symbian}. I haven't tried runtime gdb tests (they require complete toolchains for all platforms and I don't have them atm). Ok to commit? -Y