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Re: unreferenced local symbols generated in .dynsym
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 23 Apr 2003 21:08:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: unreferenced local symbols generated in .dynsym
- References: <200304232150.h3NLoG320931@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com> writes:
> > You're right, it is possible to use a local symbol in .dynsym.
> > However, if you need one such symbol, you probably need more than one,
>
> Why? Isn't one enough, converting any difference to addend? It doesn't
> matter to me if the local symbol is a section symbol or another flavor,
> but I would like there to be only one.
Hmmm, you're right. You should only need one symbol per section at
most, even without using section symbols.
Anyhow, I think we agree that the problem reduces to the same issue.
It's entirely doable, it's just that somebody has to do it.
Ian