nm(1) -- what is 'r'?
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri May 12 23:16:59 UTC 2017
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 02:37:56PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 03:31:12PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 14:25 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > Compiled libm. Did 'nm catrig.o'. Found the following:
> > >
> > > 00000008 r pio2_lo
> > > 00000000 r tiny
> > >
> > > What is 'r' mean? nm(1) lacks a description.
> > >
> >
> > 'R' is for symbols in a read-only data section, and when it's lowercase
> > that means it's a local symbol (all of which is in nm(1) but easy to
> > overlook on a quick skim).
> >
>
> Thanks. It is indeed very easy to miss. It seems elftoolchain's
> nm.1 lacks a description of 'r' and the lowercase/uppercase convention.
>
This is now in bugzilla.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219245
It should probably go upstream to Elftoolchain. I, however, did not
find a reporting mechanism.
--
Steve
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