> On 2010-08-13 23:45:23, Gabe Black wrote:
> > src/base/loader/elf_object.cc, line 378
> > <http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/169/diff/1/?file=1854#file1854line378>
> >
> >     Are all symbols 100% guaranteed to be one character or longer? Is 
> > excluding symbols with "$" a universal behavior?
> >     
> >     I honestly don't know the answers to those questions, but they make me 
> > a little nervous.

Well, the previous code ha that problem as well, but I've changed to to verify  
that elf_strptr didn't return null. Symbols beginning with $ are normally 
internally compiler/assembler generated and just turn the output into a but of 
$a+XXX instead of something meaningful, so it should be fine to ignore them. 


- Ali


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On 2010-08-13 10:08:02, Ali Saidi wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-08-13 10:08:02)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Summary
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> Loader: Don't insert symbols into the symbol table that begin wiht '$'.
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> 
> Diffs
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>   src/base/loader/elf_object.cc 3c48b2b3cb83 
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> Diff: http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/169/diff
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> 
> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Ali
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