This patch will obtain the section name for symbols that refer to a section. Prior to this patch the Name field for STT_SECTIONs was blank, now it is populated.
Before:
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 6 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1
2: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3
3: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 4
4: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
5: 0000000000000000 0 TLS GLOBAL DEFAULT UND symWith this patch:
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 6 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1 .text
2: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3 .data
3: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 4 .bss
4: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
5: 0000000000000000 0 TLS GLOBAL DEFAULT UND symThis fixes PR40788
There is already a separate test for this that needs updating instead. See gnu-symbols.test.