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ELF files can share the section header string table (e_shstrndx) with
the symtab .strtab section. That might in some cases save a bit of space
since symbols and sections might share some (sub)strings. To handle that
eu-strip just needs to not unconditionally remove the .shstrtab section
(it will be properly marked as used/unused as needed). eu-unstrip needs
to make sure the section names are added to the strtab if it decides to
rewrite that section. Also makes sure that eu-strip won't move around
a SHT_NOBITS section that has SHF_ALLOC set. Although it is allowed to
move such sections around, there is no benefit. And some tools might
expect no allocated section to move around, not even a nobits section.
It also makes it harder to do "roundtripping" sanity checks that make
sure splitting a file with eu-strip and then reconstructed with eu-unstrip
produce the same ELF file (as is done in the new run-strip-strmerge.sh).
Introduces a somewhat large test generator elfstrmerge.c that will
hopefully turn into a more generic string table merger program.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
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