From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11294 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2010 18:18:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 11052 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2010 18:18:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:18:08 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCyxJ-00070b-3d for binutils@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:18:05 +0100 Received: from host81-154-150-138.range81-154.btcentralplus.com ([81.154.150.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:18:05 +0100 Received: from pocmatos by host81-154-150-138.range81-154.btcentralplus.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:18:05 +0100 To: binutils@sources.redhat.com From: pocmatos@gmail.com (Paulo J. Matos) Subject: Re: synthetic symtab on bfd Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:18:00 -0000 Message-ID: <84mxpsc3hq.fsf@gmail.com> References: <86aaltkpwb.fsf@pm18pc01.europe.root.pri> <20101101160205.GA28366@caradoc.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > 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". Interesting, thanks. -- PMatos