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gas rearranging elf file symbols

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Fri Oct 8 06:29:00 GMT 2004 
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:23:19PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> the correct file.  You can't do better for globals of course, since
> global symbols are placed after local symbols, losing any association
> you might infer from the symbol ordering.

Actually, you can't do much about local symbols either.  The ELF gABI
says:

STT_FILE
    Conventionally, the symbol's name gives the name of the source file
    associated with the object file. A file symbol has STB_LOCAL
    binding, its section index is SHN_ABS, and it precedes the other
    STB_LOCAL symbols for the file, if it is present.

>From that wording you could also infer that there should only be one
file symbol, that of the main source file.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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