Revert "[LLDB][ELF] Fixup for comments in D67390"

This reverts commit 813f05915d29904878d926f9849ca3dbe78096af.

llvm-svn: 371624

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp
index e1f08ffaa18..20e26f033d1 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp
@@ -2644,11 +2644,12 @@ Symtab *ObjectFileELF::GetSymtab() {
 
     // Sharable objects and dynamic executables usually have 2 distinct symbol
     // tables, one named ".symtab", and the other ".dynsym". The dynsym is a
-    // smaller version of the symtab that only contains global symbols.
-    // Information in the dynsym section is *usually* also found in the symtab,
-    // but this is not required as symtab entries can be removed after linking.
-    // The minidebuginfo format makes use of this facility to create smaller
-    // symbol tables.
+    // smaller version of the symtab that only contains global symbols. The
+    // information found in the dynsym is therefore also found in the symtab,
+    // while the reverse is not necessarily true.
+    // One exception to the above rule is when we have minidebuginfo embedded
+    // into a compressed .gnu_debugdata section. This section contains a .symtab
+    // from which all symbols already contained in the .dynsym are stripped.
     Section *symtab =
         section_list->FindSectionByType(eSectionTypeELFSymbolTable, true).get();
     if (symtab) {