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* Kaylee Blake:

> Oh, I think I was unclear. They contain the same set of symbols,

Right, I was confused.

> but readelf reports the name of the symbol without any @version or
> @@version suffix if reading from the dynamic array.

I think that's a readelf implementation choice, up to a certain
degree.

The link editor definitely has to consult the GNU_verdef section, it's
not just data used at run time.