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authorKonrad Kleine <kkleine@redhat.com>2019-09-11 10:12:36 +0000
committerKonrad Kleine <kkleine@redhat.com>2019-09-11 10:12:36 +0000
commit813f05915d29904878d926f9849ca3dbe78096af (patch)
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[LLDB][ELF] Fixup for comments in D67390
llvm-svn: 371600
Diffstat (limited to 'lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF')
-rw-r--r--lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp
index 20e26f033d1..e1f08ffaa18 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp
@@ -2644,12 +2644,11 @@ 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. 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.
+ // 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.
Section *symtab =
section_list->FindSectionByType(eSectionTypeELFSymbolTable, true).get();
if (symtab) {
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