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Re: Can objdump show friendly symbolic function name?
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> writes:
> 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?
No.
Richard