Section symbols exist as an optimization: instead of having multiple relocations
point to different symbols, many of them can point to a single section symbol.
When that optimization is unused, a section symbol is also unused and adds no
extra information to the object file.
This saves a bit of space on the object files and makes the output of
llvm-objdump -t easier to read and consequently some tests get quite a bit
simpler.
llvm-svn: 239045
The ELF spec is very clear:
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If the value is non-zero, it represents a string table index that gives the
symbol name. Otherwise, the symbol table entry has no name.
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In particular, a st_name of 0 most certainly doesn't mean that the symbol has
the same name as the section.
llvm-svn: 238899
-no-exec-stack. This was due to it not deriving from the correct
asm info base class and missing the override for the exec
stack section query. Added another line to the noexec test
line to make sure this doesn't regress.
llvm-svn: 227074
Rafael Espindola