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[committed, PATCH] Always create dynsym section with dynamic sections

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 22:57:00 GMT 2016 
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Faraz Shahbazker
<Faraz.Shahbazker@imgtec.com> wrote:
> On 04/22/2016 12:28 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Faraz Shahbazker
>>> + if (dynsymcount != 0 || elf_hash_table (info)->dynamic_sections_created)
>>> +     ++dynsymcount;
>>
>> Are you saying dynamic_sections_created is 0 for MIPS here
>> and will become 1 later?
>
> No, it will remain 0. The link is static, but the hash_table is still used to
> record global symbols that have GOT relocations against them. Ofc, this
> hash_table does not result in creation of a dynsym section, because well,
> dynamic_sections_created is 0.
>
> Check the list of callers to bfd_elf_link_record_dynamic_symbol(), a number of
> architectures use the link_hash_table in situations where it is not clear whether it is
> being used to track dynamic symbols for a dynamic executable, as it is for x86.
>

Can you show me the output of "readelf -SWl" on such executable?

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H.J.
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