Re: [PATCH v3] gas: add --reloc-section-sym={all, internal, none} option for ELF
Project / Subsystem
binutils / gas
Date
2026-05-15
Proposer
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Smaller `.symtab` size vs. preserving symbol names for debugging.
- • Increased complexity in the assembler.
All attributes
- project
- binutils
- subsystem
- gas
- patch_id
- —
- discussion_id
- 20260228061955.23818-1-i@maskray.me
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- public_inbox
- title
- Re: [PATCH v3] gas: add --reloc-section-sym={all, internal, none} option for ELF
- headline
- gas: Add --reloc-section-sym={all, internal, none} option for ELF
- tldr
- GAS gets a new option to control conversion of local symbols to section symbols in relocations, aiding debugging and symbol preservation.
- proposer
- Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- proposed
- sentiment_score
- —
- technical_tradeoffs
-
- • Smaller `.symtab` size vs. preserving symbol names for debugging.
- • Increased complexity in the assembler.
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- —
- series_role
- standalone
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- []
- tags
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- • assembler
- • gas
- • relocation
- • elf
- • symbols
- bugzilla_url
- —
- date
- 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
Re: [PATCH v3] gas: add --reloc-section-sym={all, internal, none} option for ELF
A new assembler option, --reloc-section-sym, controls the conversion of local symbols to section symbols (STT_SECTION) in ELF relocations. This conversion, which minimizes .symtab size, can now be disabled or limited to compiler-generated symbols. The option helps with debugging and supports tools that rely on preserved symbol names.