ppc64: function symbol is in the initialized data section

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hi there,

Before making some noise on binutils mailing list, could someone
please confirm that the output of nm looks odd for a library compiled
using gcc 7.2.0:

>From ppc64 porterbox Debian machine:

ppc64 % nm -B -D ./libknet/.libs/libknet.so.1.0.0 | grep knet_handle_new
000000000003ec40 D knet_handle_new

For comparison:

ppc64 % objdump -T ./libknet/.libs/libknet.so.1.0.0 | grep knet_handle_new
000000000003ec40 g    DF .opd 00000000000011b8  LIBKNET     knet_handle_new

ppc64 % readelf -a ./libknet/.libs/libknet.so.1.0.0 | grep knet_handle_new
   108: 000000000003ec40  4536 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   19
knet_handle_new@@LIBKNET
   258: 000000000003ec40  4536 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   19 knet_handle_new

where:

ppc64 % file ./libknet/.libs/libknet.so.1.0.0
./libknet/.libs/libknet.so.1.0.0: ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, 64-bit
PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked,
BuildID[sha1]=3110ff3aaddc51783dc9d7046e365a86b4d04907, with
debug_info, not stripped

>From my amd64:

amd64 $ nm -B -D ./libknet/.libs/libknet.so.1.0.0 | grep knet_handle_new
0000000000004d00 T knet_handle_new

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu