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Comment at: llvm/include/llvm/ObjectYAML/ELFYAML.h:379-380
   // being a single SHT_SYMTAB section are upheld.
-  std::vector<Symbol> Symbols;
+  Optional<std::vector<Symbol>> Symbols;
   std::vector<Symbol> DynamicSymbols;
 };
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labath wrote:
> This creates an inconsistency between how .symtab and .dynsym sections are 
> handled, which is hard to justify. I actually prefer the Optional<> version, 
> because that enables one to say "the symtab section is there, but it is 
> _empty_", something which is impossible with the way .dynsym emission works 
> (the section gets surpressed if it is empty), but the question is, shouldn't 
> then the .dynsym emission work the same way ? Have you looked at by any 
> chance how hard it would be to change .dynsym to follow the same pattern?
> 
> (In any case, I think this is up to yaml2obj maintainers to decide how to 
> handle this. I'll add some to this review.)
@labath I haven't looked but will investigate how hard it is to declare 
`Optional<std::vector<Symbol>> DynamicSymbols;`. That's what I understood at 
least.


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