On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 11:53 -0700, Josh Stone wrote: > On 10/06/2016 07:18 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > Having a symbol in an allocated symbol table (like .dynsym) that > > points to an unallocated section is wrong. Traditionally strip > > has removed such symbols if they are section or group symbols. > > But removing a real symbol from an allocate symbol table is hard > > and probably a mistake. Really removing it means rewriting the > > dynamic segment and hash sections. Since we don't do that, don't > > remove the symbol (and corrupt the ELF file). Do warn and set > > the symbol section to SHN_UNDEF. > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380961 > > > > Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com> > > Works for me. On the test from bugzilla, I get the expected warning: > > strip: Cannot remove symbol [1550] from allocated symbol table [3] > > but ldd is perfectly happy with the result. > > I also tried it with a manual "objcopy -R .rustc" beforehand, which I > will probably do in the rpm to prevent that section from even being > saved to debuginfo -- just discard it entirely. Strip still works with > the same warning and a working result.
Thanks for testing. It also has been in Fedora rawhide for some time now. I pushed it to master. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ elfutils-devel mailing list -- elfutils-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org To unsubscribe send an email to elfutils-devel-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org
