Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Thu Apr 5 14:21:00 GMT 2018

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On Apr 05 2018, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:

> Actually this is not true.  Other tools also examine the symbol information,
> one of the most important of which is the dynamic loader (ld.so).  Also the
> program itself can look at its own symbol table.  Plus you have things like
> plugins and modules and dynamically loaded libraries, all of which can and do
> access a program's symbol table.

They all use .dynsym (or whatever DT_SYMTAB points at), not .symtab.

Andreas.

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