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Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 16:16:58 -0700
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: nm(1) -- what is 'r'?
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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
20170425 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUpyCsUKR4
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