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Section type: sh_type == SHT_SYMTAB.
Common name: "symbol table".
First the we note that:
  • sh_link = 5
  • sh_info = 6
For SHT_SYMTAB sections, those numbers mean that:
  • strings that give symbol names are in section 5, .strtab
  • the relocation data is in section 6, .rela.text
A good high level tool to disassemble that section is:
nm hello_world.o
which gives:
0000000000000000 T _start
0000000000000000 d hello_world
000000000000000d a hello_world_len
This is however a high level view that omits some types of symbols and in which the symbol types . A more detailed disassembly can be obtained with:
readelf -s hello_world.o
which gives:
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 7 entries:
   Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
     0: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  UND
     1: 0000000000000000     0 FILE    LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS hello_world.asm
     2: 0000000000000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    1
     3: 0000000000000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    2
     4: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 hello_world
     5: 000000000000000d     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS hello_world_len
     6: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 _start
The binary format of the table is documented at www.sco.com/developers/gabi/2003-12-17/ch4.symtab.html
The data is:
readelf -x .symtab hello_world.o
which gives:
Hex dump of section '.symtab':
  0x00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................
  0x00000010 00000000 00000000 01000000 0400f1ff ................
  0x00000020 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................
  0x00000030 00000000 03000100 00000000 00000000 ................
  0x00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 03000200 ................
  0x00000050 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................
  0x00000060 11000000 00000100 00000000 00000000 ................
  0x00000070 00000000 00000000 1d000000 0000f1ff ................
  0x00000080 0d000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................
  0x00000090 2d000000 10000200 00000000 00000000 -...............
  0x000000a0 00000000 00000000                   ........
The entries are of type:
typedef struct {
    Elf64_Word  st_name;
    unsigned char   st_info;
    unsigned char   st_other;
    Elf64_Half  st_shndx;
    Elf64_Addr  st_value;
    Elf64_Xword st_size;
} Elf64_Sym;
Like in the section table, the first entry is magical and set to a fixed meaningless values.
Notable mentions:
Other notable people that are likely also awesome but Ciro has less familiarity with their contributions:

Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
We have two killer features:
  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
    • a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
  2. local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
    This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
    Figure 2.
    You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either https://OurBigBook.com or as a static website
    .
    Figure 3.
    Visual Studio Code extension installation
    .
    Figure 4.
    Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation
    .
    Figure 5.
    Web editor
    . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
    Video 4.
    OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo
    . Source.
  3. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
    .
    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact