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Can objdump show friendly symbolic function name?

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@linux-mips.org
Tue Jul 20 11:42:00 GMT 2010 
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
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