Re: [Valgrind-developers] [PATCH] Also load symbols from dynamic symbol table

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

I'm confused.  So you're saying that Valgrind's handling of dynamic
symbol tables is wrong?

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:02, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [BTW, I am not not subscribed to this mailing list, and
> I added valgrind developers mailing list to CC]
>
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:35:53PM +0100, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> > > Obviously, on my OpenSuse 10.2, libz.so is stripped and does not have a
> > > symbol table, so opreport only shows the sum for all functions in the
> > > library. However, Valgrind also loads the dynamic symbol table, so that
> > > cachegrinds report showed the different functions in libz.so.
> >
> > Which is a fundamental error. The dynsym by its very nature does not
> > have unexported symbols,
fine
> > so any samples taken against those symbols will 
> > be erroneously reported against the wrong symbol.
I don't follow the implication.  dynsym may not have unexported symbols,
but what does that have to do with whether or not symbols have proper
size/length information?

J