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RE: Group identifier of a comdat group
- From: "Jessica Han" <jessica at cup dot hp dot com>
- To: "'Alan Modra'" <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>, <reva at cup dot hp dot com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:43:17 -0700
- Subject: RE: Group identifier of a comdat group
- Reply-to: <jessica at cup dot hp dot com>
>-----Original Message-----
>No, group_signature use the sh_link field of the group section to load
>up the symbol table, then uses sh_info to index into the symbol table.
>The name field of that particular symbol is read, converted to host
>byte order, then used to find the name string in the string table
>section.
>
That's what I figured out too. I checked on IA64 Linux and IA64 HPUX, the
name field of that particular symbol is always 0, thus the result name
string is always "". I verified it with debugging objcopy, group_signture
always return "". Any ideas?
Thanks.