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2011-07-05 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
* object.cc (Sized_relobj_file::include_section_group): Add
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// just like ordinary sections.
elfcpp::Elf_Word flags = elfcpp::Swap<32, big_endian>::readval(pword);
// Look up the group signature, which is the name of a symbol. This
// is a lot of effort to go to to read a string. Why didn't they
// just have the group signature point into the string table, rather
// than indirect through a symbol?
// Look up the group signature, which is the name of a symbol. ELF
// uses a symbol name because some group signatures are long, and
// the name is generally already in the symbol table, so it makes
// sense to put the long string just once in .strtab rather than in
// both .strtab and .shstrtab.
// Get the appropriate symbol table header (this will normally be
// the single SHT_SYMTAB section, but in principle it need not be).