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Re: PATCH: SHN_XINDEX support is broken

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:18:59AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> I have been looking at the change. I am not 100% sure if it will be
> always correct. Will the symbol table be read in by SHT_REL/SHT_RELA?

Yes.  elf.c:1940
	/* Get the symbol table.  */
	if ((elf_elfsections (abfd)[hdr->sh_link]->sh_type == SHT_SYMTAB
	     || elf_elfsections (abfd)[hdr->sh_link]->sh_type == SHT_DYNSYM)
	    && ! bfd_section_from_shdr (abfd, hdr->sh_link))
	  return FALSE;

> What if a file doesn't have them and does have SHT_GROUP?

group_signature loads the symbol table.

elf.c:450
  /* First we need to ensure the symbol table is available.  */
  if (! bfd_section_from_shdr (abfd, ghdr->sh_link))
    return NULL;

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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