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Re: More than 65536 sections in an ELF file

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: 2008年3月07日 17:33:03 -0800
Subject: Re: More than 65536 sections in an ELF file
References: <m3od9qf4pv.fsf@google.com> <6dc9ffc80803071721l30fc254ej9bd13da27d5755dd@mail.gmail.com>

"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
> Icc has generated files with more than 65536 sections. I am not aware of any
> problem. Can you open a bug report with a script to generate a file with more
> than 65536 sections and show the problem with readelf?
There is no visible problem with readelf, because readelf also
adjusts. Actually, you can see what happens with readelf -S; watch
the section indices:
 [65277] section_65274 PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0003fc24
 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 4
 [65278] section_65275 PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0003fc28
 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 4
 [65279] section_65276 PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0003fc2c
 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 4
 [65536] section_65277 PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0003fc30
 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 4
 [65537] section_65278 PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0003fc34
 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 4
 [65538] section_65279 PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0003fc38
 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 4
 [65539] section_65280 PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0003fc3c
 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 4
Where are sections 65280 to 65535?
I opened bug 5900 for this.
Ian

References:
- More than 65536 sections in an ELF file
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: More than 65536 sections in an ELF file
  - From: H.J. Lu

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