differentiate reconstructed symbol table based entries

[gimli-rs]

differentiate reconstructed symbol table based entries

[philipc]

It should be putting these in a <symtab> unit.

[m4b]

Ah, I didn't even check for that/would have suspected it.

[m4b]

We can close then I guess, makes sense. To be clear anything not found in dwarf stuff is put into synthetic unit, whose values/members are extracted directly from the binaries symbol table, yes?

Would be nice to have a blurb about this somewhere, but not sure where that would go.

EDIT

also my usecase was i was grepping symbols with a -C 5 so i'd still have to check they're after symtab unit. It's not really important though, just thought I'd add that.

[philipc]

To be clear anything not found in dwarf stuff is put into synthetic unit, whose values/members are extracted directly from the binaries symbol table, yes?

Yes.

I do need to write some sort of documentation/manual that explains things like this.

I understand your use case, but it's possibly a bit specialized. I think the issue is you're coming from an angle of wanting to debug the DWARF generation, instead of just wanting to extract information (which is mostly what I use it for). I could add an option to disable usage of the symbol table, but I probably don't want to do anything more intrusive than that.

[philipc]

One thing you could do is if you know which unit the entry is in, then you could pass an option to ddbug to only display that unit.

[m4b]

yea, unit maybe could work, but honestly your time is probably spent elsewhere and other features. now that i know about symtab unit, i just know what to look out for