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Re: Can objdump show friendly symbolic function name?
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> It would certainly be possible to do the same thing in objdump,
> and FWIW, I did wonder about that when adding the readelf -A GOT dump.
> The problem is that, in a multi-GOT world, the annotations are only
> ever going to be a best guess. If the disassembler sees:
>
> lw $2,-32000(gp)
>
> it doesn't in general know whether gp points to the primary
> (ABI-defined) GOT, or to some secondary GOT. If it guesses
> right, the annotation would be useful, but if it guesses wrong,
> the annotation would be very misleading. This is different from
> the current <foo> markers, which are always accurate (or at least,
> _should_ always be accurate).
Can the GOT pointer switch between GOTs within a single function?
Maciej