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Re: nm manual incomplete ?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 09:47:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: nm manual incomplete ?
- References: <4FBC8C81.8070204@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 23 09:06, marco atzeri wrote:
> using
> $ nm --version
> GNU nm (GNU Binutils) 2.22.52.20120326
>
> I see on an npi (libmpi.dll.a) library
>
> d002278.o:
> 00000000 i .idata$4
> 00000000 i .idata$5
> 00000000 i .idata$6
> 00000000 i .idata$7
> 00000000 t .text
> U __head_cygmpi_1_dll
> 00000000 I __imp__ompi_mpi_comm_world
> 00000000 I __nm__ompi_mpi_comm_world
>
> but there is no "I" on the nm manual :
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> "i" For PE format files this indicates that the symbol is in a
> section specific to the implementation of DLLs. For ELF format
> files this indicates that the symbol is an indirect function.
> This is a GNU extension to the standard set of ELF symbol
> types. It indicates a symbol which if referenced by a
> relocation does not evaluate to its address, but instead must
> be invoked at runtime. The runtime execution will then return
> the value to be used in the relocation.
>
> "N" The symbol is a debugging symbol.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> what is "I" for ?
Import? Indirection? Maybe you should ask on the binutils list,
they might be interested to fix the man page.
Corinna
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