Enum Sort 

pub enum Sort {
    Func,
    Object,
    Thread,
    Ifunc,
    File,
    Untyped,
}

What kind of thing a name names, which is what .type says.

Variants

Func

@function. A call through the procedure linkage table may be made to it.

Object

@object. Data.

Thread

@tls_object. A thread-local variable, which a linker checks relocations against.

Ifunc

@gnu_indirect_function, ELF’s STT_GNU_IFUNC. The name is at a resolver rather than at the function: the dynamic loader calls what is there once, before anything else can, and the address it hands back is what every call and every pointer to the name then reaches.

That makes it a name nothing in this file may be worked out against, because the place it marks is not where a call to it goes. A reference to one stays a relocation against the name even when the name is local and in the same section, where any other name would have been turned into the section and an offset. See moved.

File

.file, which names the source this was assembled from rather than anything in it.

Not a thing .type can say, and here because it is a symbol and there is nowhere else for it. A debugger reads it and so does nm, and gas writes one for every file that says its own name, which is every file gcc produces.

Untyped

Nothing was said, which is what a plain label gets and is a real answer rather than a missing one: gas writes STT_NOTYPE for a label nobody stated a type for.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for Sort

fn clone(&self) -> Self

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Copy for Sort

impl Debug for Sort

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Default for Sort

fn default() -> Self

Returns the “default value” for a type.

impl Eq for Sort

impl PartialEq for Sort

fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool

Equality operator ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Inequality operator !=.

impl StructuralPartialEq for Sort