On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 09:44 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Mark Wielaard: > > > It is already possible to select the symbol table to print by name, > > using --symbols=SECTION. This allows printing the dynamic symbol table > > with --symbols=.dynsym. binutils readelf allows printing just the > > dynamic symbol table by type using --dyn-sym. Add the same option > > and document it. Also add a testcase to show --symbols=.dynsym and > > --dyn-sym produce the same output. > > Note that this behavior is not the same as the binutils behavior. > There, --dyn-sym does not use the section header table to locate the > dynamic symbol table, but the dynamic segment.
When I experimented with this, binutils seems to be display the symbols through the dynamic segment when using --symbols --use-dynamic. Using --dyn-sym explicitly seems to only display the symbols from the SHT_DYNSYM section, not by getting it through the dynamic segment, even when combined with --use-dynamic (*). eu-readelf doesn't implement --use-dynamic, -D, it probably should. Cheers, Mark (*) Try eu-strip --strip-sections on a binary to replicate.
