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| author | Dacian Pascu <pascu.dacian@gmail.com> | 2025-06-20 17:00:11 +0300 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2025-06-28 16:51:41 +0200 |
| commit | 591bef7177364e16ba7e9ed7171fbb01eb458258 (patch) | |
| tree | cdf1e69015da0a397aac61a9f35e59130a93d4b7 | |
| parent | f9bd8dbdcd1f10630552cf1a6d4af333ce3ed27b (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-591bef7177364e16ba7e9ed7171fbb01eb458258.tar.gz | |
man/man5/elf.5: Clarify string table reference for SHT_SYMTAB sections
Add clarification that for SHT_SYMTAB sections, the associated string
table section index can be found in the sh_link member, following the
same pattern documented for section header string tables.
This was discovered while writing an ELF parser, where the sh_link
field is needed to locate the string table for symbol name lookups
in SHT_SYMTAB sections.
Signed-off-by: Dacian Pascu <pascu.dacian@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <78e41dade449bafddfb730b39226f8d9cb3fefdb.1750427945.git.pascu.dacian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man5/elf.5 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man5/elf.5 b/man/man5/elf.5 index aacbb558fc..c7b9a7cf8c 100644 --- a/man/man5/elf.5 +++ b/man/man5/elf.5 @@ -942,6 +942,10 @@ An object file can also contain a .B SHT_DYNSYM section. +The index of the associated string table section +can be found in the +.I sh_link +member. .TP .B SHT_STRTAB This section holds a string table. |