In some cases a symbol might have section index == SHN_XINDEX.
This is an escape value indicating that the actual section header index
is too large to fit in the containing field.
Then the SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX section is used. It contains the 32bit values
that stores section indexes.
ELF gABI says that there can be multiple SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX sections,
i.e. for example one for .symtab and one for .dynsym
(1) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/generic-abi/-XJAV5d8PRg
(2) DT_SYMTAB_SHNDX: http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch5.dynamic.html
In this patch I am only supporting a single SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX associated
with a .symtab. This is a more or less common case which is used a few tests I saw in LLVM.
I decided not to create the SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX section as "implicit",
but implement is like a kind of regular section for now.
i.e. tools do not recreate this section or its content, like they do for
symbol table sections, for example. That should allow to write all kind of
possible broken test cases for our needs and keep the output closer to requested.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65446
llvm-svn: 368272
