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Re: synthetic symtab on bfd
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:02:10 -0400
- Subject: Re: synthetic symtab on bfd
- References: <86aaltkpwb.fsf@pm18pc01.europe.root.pri>
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 03:46:44PM +0000, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
>
> On bfd there's a function (which doesn't seem to be documented):
> - bfd_get_synthetic_symtab
>
> What is this synthetic symbol table?
Symbols that aren't in the object file, but BFD can infer and finds
useful. For instance, most platforms don't put a symbol on each PLT
entry. But disassembly is more useful if it says "branch to
memcpy@plt" instead of "branch to _init - 0x54".
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery