Re: [PATCH] elf.5: remove erroneous, duplicate SHN_* section
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-28 07:55:31
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- 2016-01-27 · [PATCH] elf.5: remove erroneous, duplicate SHN_* section · Chris Pick <hidden>
On 01/27/2016 11:57 PM, Chris Pick wrote:
The ELF header section's e_shstrndx contained a duplicate desription of the SHN_* special section header indicies. Remove them.
Thanks, Chris. Patch applied. (Things are a little easier if you inline patches though.) Cheers, Michael ====
From 562c62bc0fd68fb7f94a98142a9fd49baab95e45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Pick <redacted> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:32:21 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] elf.5: remove erroneous, duplicate SHN_* section The ELF header section's e_shstrndx contained a duplicate desription of the SHN_* special section header indicies. Remove them. --- man5/elf.5 | 49 ------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 49 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man5/elf.5 b/man5/elf.5
index c140bb2..5a64704 100644
--- a/man5/elf.5
+++ b/man5/elf.5@@ -622,55 +622,6 @@ member of the initial entry in section header table. Otherwise, the .IR sh_link member of the initial entry in section header table contains the value zero. -.RS 12 -.\" .Bl -tag -width "SHN_LORESERVE" -.TP 14 -.BR SHN_UNDEF -This value marks an undefined, missing, irrelevant, or otherwise meaningless -section reference. -For example, a symbol -"defined" -relative to section number -.BR SHN_UNDEF -is an undefined symbol. -.TP -.BR SHN_LORESERVE -This value specifies the lower bound of the range of reserved indices. -.TP -.BR SHN_LOPROC -Values greater than or equal to -.BR SHN_HIPROC -are reserved for processor-specific semantics. -.TP -.BR SHN_HIPROC -Values less than or equal to -.BR SHN_LOPROC -are reserved for processor-specific semantics. -.TP -.BR SHN_ABS -This value specifies absolute values for the corresponding reference. -For -example, symbols defined relative to section number -.BR SHN_ABS -have absolute values and are not affected by relocation. -.TP -.BR SHN_COMMON -Symbols defined relative to this section are common symbols, such as Fortran -COMMON or unallocated C external variables. -.TP -.BR SHN_HIRESERVE -This value specifies the upper bound of the range of reserved -indices between -.BR SHN_LORESERVE -and -.BR SHN_HIRESERVE , -inclusive; the values do -not reference the section header table. -That is, the section header table -does -.I not -contain entries for the reserved indices. -.RE .\" .El .\" .El .PP
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