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22 /*
23  * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
24  * Use is subject to license terms.
25  */
26 
27 #pragma ident	"%Z%%M%	%I%	%E% SMI"
28 
29 #include <sys/types.h>
30 #include <string.h>
31 
32 #include "symbol.h"
33 
34 int
35 ignore_symbol(GElf_Sym *sym, const char *name)
36 {
37 	uchar_t type = GELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info);
38 
39 	/*
40 	 * As an optimization, we do not output function or data object
41 	 * records for undefined or anonymous symbols.
42 	 */
43 	if (sym->st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF || sym->st_name == 0)
44 		return (1);
45 
46 	/*
47 	 * _START_ and _END_ are added to the symbol table by the
48 	 * linker, and will never have associated type information.
49 	 */
50 	if (strcmp(name, "_START_") == 0 || strcmp(name, "_END_") == 0)
51 		return (1);
52 
53 	/*
54 	 * Do not output records for absolute-valued object symbols
55 	 * that have value zero.  The compiler insists on generating
56 	 * things like this for __fsr_init_value settings, etc.
57 	 */
58 	if (type == STT_OBJECT && sym->st_shndx == SHN_ABS &&
59 	    sym->st_value == 0)
60 		return (1);
61 	return (0);
62 }
63