On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Peng Yu via Gcc-help wrote: > I have the above object file. If I understand it correctly, the Ndx in > the following output should be the index of the string in the > .shstrtab table as shown below? No, Ndx gives the section index (readelf -SW); 1 is .text, 3 is .data and so on. > Why these sections are in the symbol table, given that they are > already in the section headers? They are needed in case there's a relocation referring to a section rather than a specific symbol; in fact there is one such relocation in this example, see output of readelf -r. Apart from .text, symtab entries for other sections appear unused and could be eliminated. Alexander
