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Re: [PATCH/RFC] Map .coment/.note to BSD/POSIX symbol types

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan at phys dot uoa dot gr>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:44:57 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Map .coment/.note to BSD/POSIX symbol types
References: <20030523183235.C7065@neutrino.particles.org><m3d6i9y6k0.fsf@gossamer.airs.com><20030601225357.G7065@neutrino.particles.org><m3adczkzei.fsf@redhat.com><20030603193804.H7065@neutrino.particles.org>

Hi Elias,

>> Approved - please apply.
>
> Could you do this for be, because I don't have CVS write access?

Done.
  
>> Please also update binutuls/doc/binutils.texi where it describes the
>> output of the nm command.
>
> I don't think this is necessary. The current documentation is right with
> this change. The sections .comment and .note can be thought of as debugging
> symbols and we use lowercase 'n' just as we do with sections such as .bss
> (we mark it with lowercase 'b', not 'B').

Ah - good point.

>> Please also update binutils/NEWS to mention this new feature of nm.
>
> Done.

Patch also applied.

Cheers
        Nick

References:
- Re: [PATCH/RFC] Map .coment/.note to BSD/POSIX symbol types
  - From: Elias Athanasopoulos
- Re: [PATCH/RFC] Map .coment/.note to BSD/POSIX symbol types
  - From: Nick Clifton
- Re: [PATCH/RFC] Map .coment/.note to BSD/POSIX symbol types
  - From: Elias Athanasopoulos

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