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From: "mliska at suse dot cz" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
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Subject: [Bug tools/29719] New: eu-readelf -s=section is confusing
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:13:50 +0000
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D29719

            Bug ID: 29719
           Summary: eu-readelf -s=3Dsection is confusing
           Product: elfutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: tools
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: mliska at suse dot cz
                CC: elfutils-devel at sourceware dot org, mjw at fedoraproj=
ect dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Note there's a difference in between binutils and elfutils where the later =
on
has an optional argument:

       --symbols [section name]

I have a few comments:

1) it's confusing as one expects that all symbols in "section name" will be
printed, but it's not correct. It's the name of '.symtab' section.

2) readelf -sW xxx does not print anything, while binutils does:

The reason is simple, 'W' section is not found in the binary. I would recom=
mend
printing a warning:

./src/readelf -sW /home/marxin/Programming/linux/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.o
WARNING: cannot find section: 'W'
WARNING: cannot find section: 'W'

diff --git a/src/readelf.c b/src/readelf.c
index a206e60e..465526c4 100644
--- a/src/readelf.c
+++ b/src/readelf.c
@@ -2431,6 +2431,7 @@ print_symtab (Ebl *ebl, int type)
   /* Find the symbol table(s).  For this we have to search through the
      section table.  */
   Elf_Scn *scn =3D NULL;
+  bool symtab_handled =3D false;

   while ((scn =3D elf_nextscn (ebl->elf, scn)) !=3D NULL)
     {
@@ -2466,8 +2467,13 @@ print_symtab (Ebl *ebl, int type)
                            elf_ndxscn (scn), elf_errmsg (-1));
            }
          handle_symtab (ebl, scn, shdr);
+         symtab_handled =3D true;
        }
     }
+
+  if (!symtab_handled && symbol_table_section !=3D NULL)
+    printf ("WARNING: %s: '%s'\n", _("cannot find section"),
+           symbol_table_section);
 }

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