[Valgrind-developers] Symbol table information...

[Josef W. <Jos...@gm...>]

Hi,

there is a problem with the reading of symbol table information:
we currently read only one of "symtab" or "dynsym" section, whatever comes
last in the ELF section list of a file.
I thought intended behaviour was to fallback to dynsym only if symtab isn't 
available (as the comment says, too).

Neverless, I think both tables should be read in. I have a library here 
(libfam.so on Suse 8.0), where the regular symtab holds only a few exported 
symbols (a C API), but the language is C++. Thus, the "dynsym" section 
contains a *lot* more symbols, especially "__builtin_new", too.

As libfam.so is loaded first of all C++ library for any QT/KDE program here, 
every C++ object creation will call "__builtin_new" from libfam.so.
Unfortunately, only symbols in "symtab" are loaded by Valgrind, so I only see 
"???" instead of "__builtin_new".

Is there a problem when loading both tables with same symbols?
Otherwise, I suggest a change...

Josef