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Re: function symbols before module base address
> We do filter on STT_FUNC && !SHN_UNDEF.
Ok.
> OK, I'll augment the test to be STT_FUNC && !(SHN_UNDEF || SHN_ABS). The
> combination STT_FUNC && SHN_ABS only seems to occur on older i386
> kernels and covers the vDSO "functions" we were seeing.
Ah. I've rewritten the vDSO build magic enough times that I can't always
recall what there might have been in past iterations. I probably never
noticed that the symbols from the old way (using ld -R) copied the symbol
type. The current method (generating constants in linker scripts) does not.
Thanks,
Roland