libctf: split serialization and file writeout into its own file

The code to serialize CTF dicts just gets bigger and bigger as the
dictionary's complexity grows: adding symtypetabs almost doubled it on
its own.  It's long past time to split this out into its own source
file, accompanied by the functions that do the actual writeout.

This leaves ctf-create.c populated exclusively by functions related to
actual writable dict creation (ctf_add_*, ctf_create etc), and leaves
both files a much more reasonable size.

libctf/ChangeLog
2021-03-18  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>

	* ctf-create.c (symtypetab_delete_nonstatic_vars): Move
	into ctf-serialize.c.
	(ctf_symtab_skippable): Likewise.
	(CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION): Likewise.
	(CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD): Likewise.
	(CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED): Likewise.
	(symtypetab_density): Likewise.
	(emit_symtypetab): Likewise.
	(emit_symtypetab_index): Likewise.
	(ctf_copy_smembers): Likewise.
	(ctf_copy_lmembers): Likewise.
	(ctf_copy_emembers): Likewise.
	(ctf_sort_var): Likewise.
	(ctf_serialize): Likewise.
	(ctf_gzwrite): Likewise.
	(ctf_compress_write): Likewise.
	(ctf_write_mem): Likewise.
	(ctf_write): Likewise.
	* ctf-serialize.c: New file.
	* Makefile.am (libctf_nobfd_la_SOURCES): Add it.
	* Makefile.in: Regenerate.

5 files changed, 1391 insertions, 1324 deletions

diff --git a/libctf/ChangeLog b/libctf/ChangeLog
index cf78d8c..bd2563d 100644
--- a/libctf/ChangeLog
+++ b/libctf/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,29 @@
 2021-03-18  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
 
+	* ctf-create.c (symtypetab_delete_nonstatic_vars): Move
+	into ctf-serialize.c.
+	(ctf_symtab_skippable): Likewise.
+	(CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION): Likewise.
+	(CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD): Likewise.
+	(CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED): Likewise.
+	(symtypetab_density): Likewise.
+	(emit_symtypetab): Likewise.
+	(emit_symtypetab_index): Likewise.
+	(ctf_copy_smembers): Likewise.
+	(ctf_copy_lmembers): Likewise.
+	(ctf_copy_emembers): Likewise.
+	(ctf_sort_var): Likewise.
+	(ctf_serialize): Likewise.
+	(ctf_gzwrite): Likewise.
+	(ctf_compress_write): Likewise.
+	(ctf_write_mem): Likewise.
+	(ctf_write): Likewise.
+	* ctf-serialize.c: New file.
+	* Makefile.am (libctf_nobfd_la_SOURCES): Add it.
+	* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
+
+2021-03-18  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
+
 	* ctf-link.c (ctf_link_lazy_open): Move up in the file, to near
 	ctf_link_add_ctf.
 	* ctf-lookup.c (ctf_lookup_symbol_idx): Repair tabdamage.
diff --git a/libctf/Makefile.am b/libctf/Makefile.am
index 03fd6cc..e586d25 100644
--- a/libctf/Makefile.am
+++ b/libctf/Makefile.am
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ libctf_nobfd_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 0:0:0 @SHARED_LDFLAGS@ @VERSION_FLAGS@
 libctf_nobfd_la_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -DNOBFD=1
 libctf_nobfd_la_SOURCES = ctf-archive.c ctf-dump.c ctf-create.c ctf-decl.c ctf-error.c \
 			  ctf-hash.c ctf-labels.c ctf-dedup.c ctf-link.c ctf-lookup.c \
-			  ctf-open.c ctf-sha1.c ctf-string.c ctf-subr.c ctf-types.c \
-			  ctf-util.c
+			  ctf-open.c ctf-serialize.c ctf-sha1.c ctf-string.c ctf-subr.c \
+			  ctf-types.c ctf-util.c
 if NEED_CTF_QSORT_R
 libctf_nobfd_la_SOURCES += ctf-qsort_r.c
 endif
diff --git a/libctf/Makefile.in b/libctf/Makefile.in
index e3ee895..5cfa100 100644
--- a/libctf/Makefile.in
+++ b/libctf/Makefile.in
@@ -168,8 +168,9 @@ am__DEPENDENCIES_1 =
 libctf_nobfd_la_DEPENDENCIES = $(am__DEPENDENCIES_1)
 am__libctf_nobfd_la_SOURCES_DIST = ctf-archive.c ctf-dump.c \
 	ctf-create.c ctf-decl.c ctf-error.c ctf-hash.c ctf-labels.c \
-	ctf-dedup.c ctf-link.c ctf-lookup.c ctf-open.c ctf-sha1.c \
-	ctf-string.c ctf-subr.c ctf-types.c ctf-util.c ctf-qsort_r.c
+	ctf-dedup.c ctf-link.c ctf-lookup.c ctf-open.c ctf-serialize.c \
+	ctf-sha1.c ctf-string.c ctf-subr.c ctf-types.c ctf-util.c \
+	ctf-qsort_r.c
 @NEED_CTF_QSORT_R_TRUE@am__objects_1 = libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-qsort_r.lo
 am_libctf_nobfd_la_OBJECTS = libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-archive.lo \
 	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-dump.lo libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-create.lo \
@@ -177,9 +178,10 @@ am_libctf_nobfd_la_OBJECTS = libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-archive.lo \
 	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-hash.lo libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-labels.lo \
 	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-dedup.lo libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-link.lo \
 	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-lookup.lo libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-open.lo \
-	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-sha1.lo libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-string.lo \
-	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-subr.lo libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-types.lo \
-	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-util.lo $(am__objects_1)
+	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.lo libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-sha1.lo \
+	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-string.lo libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-subr.lo \
+	libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-types.lo libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-util.lo \
+	$(am__objects_1)
 libctf_nobfd_la_OBJECTS = $(am_libctf_nobfd_la_OBJECTS)
 AM_V_lt = $(am__v_lt_@AM_V@)
 am__v_lt_ = $(am__v_lt_@AM_DEFAULT_V@)
@@ -195,17 +197,19 @@ am__DEPENDENCIES_2 = $(am__DEPENDENCIES_1)
 libctf_la_DEPENDENCIES = ../bfd/libbfd.la $(am__DEPENDENCIES_2)
 am__libctf_la_SOURCES_DIST = ctf-archive.c ctf-dump.c ctf-create.c \
 	ctf-decl.c ctf-error.c ctf-hash.c ctf-labels.c ctf-dedup.c \
-	ctf-link.c ctf-lookup.c ctf-open.c ctf-sha1.c ctf-string.c \
-	ctf-subr.c ctf-types.c ctf-util.c ctf-qsort_r.c ctf-open-bfd.c
+	ctf-link.c ctf-lookup.c ctf-open.c ctf-serialize.c ctf-sha1.c \
+	ctf-string.c ctf-subr.c ctf-types.c ctf-util.c ctf-qsort_r.c \
+	ctf-open-bfd.c
 @NEED_CTF_QSORT_R_TRUE@am__objects_2 = libctf_la-ctf-qsort_r.lo
 am__objects_3 = libctf_la-ctf-archive.lo libctf_la-ctf-dump.lo \
 	libctf_la-ctf-create.lo libctf_la-ctf-decl.lo \
 	libctf_la-ctf-error.lo libctf_la-ctf-hash.lo \
 	libctf_la-ctf-labels.lo libctf_la-ctf-dedup.lo \
 	libctf_la-ctf-link.lo libctf_la-ctf-lookup.lo \
-	libctf_la-ctf-open.lo libctf_la-ctf-sha1.lo \
-	libctf_la-ctf-string.lo libctf_la-ctf-subr.lo \
-	libctf_la-ctf-types.lo libctf_la-ctf-util.lo $(am__objects_2)
+	libctf_la-ctf-open.lo libctf_la-ctf-serialize.lo \
+	libctf_la-ctf-sha1.lo libctf_la-ctf-string.lo \
+	libctf_la-ctf-subr.lo libctf_la-ctf-types.lo \
+	libctf_la-ctf-util.lo $(am__objects_2)
 am_libctf_la_OBJECTS = $(am__objects_3) libctf_la-ctf-open-bfd.lo
 libctf_la_OBJECTS = $(am_libctf_la_OBJECTS)
 libctf_la_LINK = $(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) \
@@ -470,8 +474,8 @@ libctf_nobfd_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 0:0:0 @SHARED_LDFLAGS@ @VERSION_FLAGS@
 libctf_nobfd_la_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -DNOBFD=1
 libctf_nobfd_la_SOURCES = ctf-archive.c ctf-dump.c ctf-create.c \
 	ctf-decl.c ctf-error.c ctf-hash.c ctf-labels.c ctf-dedup.c \
-	ctf-link.c ctf-lookup.c ctf-open.c ctf-sha1.c ctf-string.c \
-	ctf-subr.c ctf-types.c ctf-util.c $(am__append_1)
+	ctf-link.c ctf-lookup.c ctf-open.c ctf-serialize.c ctf-sha1.c \
+	ctf-string.c ctf-subr.c ctf-types.c ctf-util.c $(am__append_1)
 libctf_la_LIBADD = ../bfd/libbfd.la $(libctf_nobfd_la_LIBADD)
 libctf_la_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -DNOBFD=0
 libctf_la_LDFLAGS = $(libctf_nobfd_la_LDFLAGS)
@@ -623,6 +627,7 @@ distclean-compile:
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-open-bfd.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-open.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-qsort_r.Plo@am__quote@
+@AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-serialize.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-sha1.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-string.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-subr.Plo@am__quote@
@@ -640,6 +645,7 @@ distclean-compile:
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-lookup.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-open.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-qsort_r.Plo@am__quote@
+@AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-sha1.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-string.Plo@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-subr.Plo@am__quote@
@@ -744,6 +750,13 @@ libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-open.lo: ctf-open.c
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp) @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
 @am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	$(AM_V_CC@am__nodep@)$(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(libctf_nobfd_la_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c -o libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-open.lo `test -f 'ctf-open.c' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`ctf-open.c
 
+libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.lo: ctf-serialize.c
+@am__fastdepCC_TRUE@	$(AM_V_CC)$(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(libctf_nobfd_la_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -MT libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.lo -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.Tpo -c -o libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.lo `test -f 'ctf-serialize.c' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`ctf-serialize.c
+@am__fastdepCC_TRUE@	$(AM_V_at)$(am__mv) $(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.Tpo $(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.Plo
+@AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	$(AM_V_CC)source='ctf-serialize.c' object='libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.lo' libtool=yes @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
+@AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp) @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
+@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	$(AM_V_CC@am__nodep@)$(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(libctf_nobfd_la_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c -o libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-serialize.lo `test -f 'ctf-serialize.c' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`ctf-serialize.c
+
 libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-sha1.lo: ctf-sha1.c
 @am__fastdepCC_TRUE@	$(AM_V_CC)$(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(libctf_nobfd_la_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -MT libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-sha1.lo -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-sha1.Tpo -c -o libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-sha1.lo `test -f 'ctf-sha1.c' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`ctf-sha1.c
 @am__fastdepCC_TRUE@	$(AM_V_at)$(am__mv) $(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-sha1.Tpo $(DEPDIR)/libctf_nobfd_la-ctf-sha1.Plo
@@ -863,6 +876,13 @@ libctf_la-ctf-open.lo: ctf-open.c
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp) @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
 @am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	$(AM_V_CC@am__nodep@)$(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(libctf_la_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c -o libctf_la-ctf-open.lo `test -f 'ctf-open.c' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`ctf-open.c
 
+libctf_la-ctf-serialize.lo: ctf-serialize.c
+@am__fastdepCC_TRUE@	$(AM_V_CC)$(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(libctf_la_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -MT libctf_la-ctf-serialize.lo -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-serialize.Tpo -c -o libctf_la-ctf-serialize.lo `test -f 'ctf-serialize.c' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`ctf-serialize.c
+@am__fastdepCC_TRUE@	$(AM_V_at)$(am__mv) $(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-serialize.Tpo $(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-serialize.Plo
+@AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	$(AM_V_CC)source='ctf-serialize.c' object='libctf_la-ctf-serialize.lo' libtool=yes @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
+@AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp) @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
+@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@	$(AM_V_CC@am__nodep@)$(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(libctf_la_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c -o libctf_la-ctf-serialize.lo `test -f 'ctf-serialize.c' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`ctf-serialize.c
+
 libctf_la-ctf-sha1.lo: ctf-sha1.c
 @am__fastdepCC_TRUE@	$(AM_V_CC)$(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(libctf_la_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -MT libctf_la-ctf-sha1.lo -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-sha1.Tpo -c -o libctf_la-ctf-sha1.lo `test -f 'ctf-sha1.c' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`ctf-sha1.c
 @am__fastdepCC_TRUE@	$(AM_V_at)$(am__mv) $(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-sha1.Tpo $(DEPDIR)/libctf_la-ctf-sha1.Plo
diff --git a/libctf/ctf-create.c b/libctf/ctf-create.c
index 3f2c5da..b2e0862 100644
--- a/libctf/ctf-create.c
+++ b/libctf/ctf-create.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* CTF file creation.
+/* CTF dict creation.
    Copyright (C) 2019-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This file is part of libctf.
@@ -19,13 +19,8 @@
 
 #include <ctf-impl.h>
 #include <sys/param.h>
-#include <assert.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
-#include <zlib.h>
-
-#include <elf.h>
-#include "elf-bfd.h"
 
 #ifndef EOVERFLOW
 #define EOVERFLOW ERANGE
@@ -167,497 +162,6 @@ ctf_create (int *errp)
   return NULL;
 }
 
-/* Delete data symbols that have been assigned names from the variable section.
-   Must be called from within ctf_serialize, because that is the only place
-   you can safely delete variables without messing up ctf_rollback.  */
-
-static int
-symtypetab_delete_nonstatic_vars (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dict_t *symfp)
-{
-  ctf_dvdef_t *dvd, *nvd;
-  ctf_id_t type;
-
-  for (dvd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dvdefs); dvd != NULL; dvd = nvd)
-    {
-      nvd = ctf_list_next (dvd);
-
-      if (((type = (ctf_id_t) (uintptr_t)
-	    ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_objthash, dvd->dvd_name)) > 0)
-	  && ctf_dynhash_lookup (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, dvd->dvd_name) != NULL
-	  && type == dvd->dvd_type)
-	ctf_dvd_delete (fp, dvd);
-    }
-
-  return 0;
-}
-
-/* Determine if a symbol is "skippable" and should never appear in the
-   symtypetab sections.  */
-
-int
-ctf_symtab_skippable (ctf_link_sym_t *sym)
-{
-  /* Never skip symbols whose name is not yet known.  */
-  if (sym->st_nameidx_set)
-    return 0;
-
-  return (sym->st_name == NULL || sym->st_name[0] == 0
-	  || sym->st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF
-	  || strcmp (sym->st_name, "_START_") == 0
-	  || strcmp (sym->st_name, "_END_") == 0
-	  || (sym->st_type == STT_OBJECT && sym->st_shndx == SHN_EXTABS
-	      && sym->st_value == 0));
-}
-
-/* Symtypetab emission flags.  */
-
-#define CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION 0x1
-#define CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD 0x2
-#define CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED 0x4
-
-/* Get the number of symbols in a symbol hash, the count of symbols, the maximum
-   seen, the eventual size, without any padding elements, of the func/data and
-   (if generated) index sections, and the size of accumulated padding elements.
-   The linker-reported set of symbols is found in SYMFP: it may be NULL if
-   symbol filtering is not desired, in which case CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED
-   will always be set in the flags.
-
-   Also figure out if any symbols need to be moved to the variable section, and
-   add them (if not already present).  */
-
-_libctf_nonnull_ ((1,3,4,5,6,7,8))
-static int
-symtypetab_density (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dict_t *symfp, ctf_dynhash_t *symhash,
-		    size_t *count, size_t *max, size_t *unpadsize,
-		    size_t *padsize, size_t *idxsize, int flags)
-{
-  ctf_next_t *i = NULL;
-  const void *name;
-  const void *ctf_sym;
-  ctf_dynhash_t *linker_known = NULL;
-  int err;
-  int beyond_max = 0;
-
-  *count = 0;
-  *max = 0;
-  *unpadsize = 0;
-  *idxsize = 0;
-  *padsize = 0;
-
-  if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
-    {
-      /* Make a dynhash citing only symbols reported by the linker of the
-	 appropriate type, then traverse all potential-symbols we know the types
-	 of, removing them from linker_known as we go.  Once this is done, the
-	 only symbols remaining in linker_known are symbols we don't know the
-	 types of: we must emit pads for those symbols that are below the
-	 maximum symbol we will emit (any beyond that are simply skipped).
-
-	 If there are none, this symtypetab will be empty: just report that.  */
-
-      if (!symfp->ctf_dynsyms)
-	return 0;
-
-      if ((linker_known = ctf_dynhash_create (ctf_hash_string, ctf_hash_eq_string,
-					      NULL, NULL)) == NULL)
-	return (ctf_set_errno (fp, ENOMEM));
-
-      while ((err = ctf_dynhash_cnext (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, &i,
-				       &name, &ctf_sym)) == 0)
-	{
-	  ctf_link_sym_t *sym = (ctf_link_sym_t *) ctf_sym;
-
-	  if (((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-	       && sym->st_type != STT_FUNC)
-	      || (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-		  && sym->st_type != STT_OBJECT))
-	    continue;
-
-	  if (ctf_symtab_skippable (sym))
-	    continue;
-
-	  /* This should only be true briefly before all the names are
-	     finalized, long before we get this far.  */
-	  if (!ctf_assert (fp, !sym->st_nameidx_set))
-	    return -1;				/* errno is set for us.  */
-
-	  if (ctf_dynhash_cinsert (linker_known, name, ctf_sym) < 0)
-	    {
-	      ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
-	      return (ctf_set_errno (fp, ENOMEM));
-	    }
-	}
-      if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
-	{
-	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, err, _("iterating over linker-known symbols during "
-				  "serialization"));
-	  ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
-	  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, err));
-	}
-    }
-
-  while ((err = ctf_dynhash_cnext (symhash, &i, &name, NULL)) == 0)
-    {
-      ctf_link_sym_t *sym;
-
-      if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
-	{
-	  /* Linker did not report symbol in symtab.  Remove it from the
-	     set of known data symbols and continue.  */
-	  if ((sym = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, name)) == NULL)
-	    {
-	      ctf_dynhash_remove (symhash, name);
-	      continue;
-	    }
-
-	  /* We don't remove skippable symbols from the symhash because we don't
-	     want them to be migrated into variables.  */
-	  if (ctf_symtab_skippable (sym))
-	    continue;
-
-	  if ((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-	      && sym->st_type != STT_FUNC)
-	    {
-	      ctf_err_warn (fp, 1, 0, _("symbol %s (%x) added to CTF as a "
-					"function but is of type %x.  "
-					"The symbol type lookup tables "
-					"are probably corrupted"),
-			    sym->st_name, sym->st_symidx, sym->st_type);
-	      ctf_dynhash_remove (symhash, name);
-	      continue;
-	    }
-	  else if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-		   && sym->st_type != STT_OBJECT)
-	    {
-	      ctf_err_warn (fp, 1, 0, _("symbol %s (%x) added to CTF as a "
-					"data object but is of type %x.  "
-					"The symbol type lookup tables "
-					"are probably corrupted"),
-			    sym->st_name, sym->st_symidx, sym->st_type);
-	      ctf_dynhash_remove (symhash, name);
-	      continue;
-	    }
-
-	  ctf_dynhash_remove (linker_known, name);
-	}
-      *unpadsize += sizeof (uint32_t);
-      (*count)++;
-
-      if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
-	{
-	  if (*max < sym->st_symidx)
-	    *max = sym->st_symidx;
-	}
-      else
-	(*max)++;
-    }
-  if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
-    {
-      ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, err, _("iterating over CTF symtypetab during "
-				  "serialization"));
-      ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
-      return (ctf_set_errno (fp, err));
-    }
-
-  if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
-    {
-      while ((err = ctf_dynhash_cnext (linker_known, &i, NULL, &ctf_sym)) == 0)
-	{
-	  ctf_link_sym_t *sym = (ctf_link_sym_t *) ctf_sym;
-
-	  if (sym->st_symidx > *max)
-	    beyond_max++;
-	}
-      if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
-	{
-	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, err, _("iterating over linker-known symbols "
-				      "during CTF serialization"));
-	  ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
-	  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, err));
-	}
-    }
-
-  *idxsize = *count * sizeof (uint32_t);
-  if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
-    *padsize = (ctf_dynhash_elements (linker_known) - beyond_max) * sizeof (uint32_t);
-
-  ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
-  return 0;
-}
-
-/* Emit an objt or func symtypetab into DP in a particular order defined by an
-   array of ctf_link_sym_t or symbol names passed in.  The index has NIDX
-   elements in it: unindexed output would terminate at symbol OUTMAX and is in
-   any case no larger than SIZE bytes.  Some index elements are expected to be
-   skipped: see symtypetab_density.  The linker-reported set of symbols (if any)
-   is found in SYMFP. */
-static int
-emit_symtypetab (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dict_t *symfp, uint32_t *dp,
-		 ctf_link_sym_t **idx, const char **nameidx, uint32_t nidx,
-		 uint32_t outmax, int size, int flags)
-{
-  uint32_t i;
-  uint32_t *dpp = dp;
-  ctf_dynhash_t *symhash;
-
-  ctf_dprintf ("Emitting table of size %i, outmax %u, %u symtypetab entries, "
-	       "flags %i\n", size, outmax, nidx, flags);
-
-  /* Empty table? Nothing to do.  */
-  if (size == 0)
-    return 0;
-
-  if (flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-    symhash = fp->ctf_funchash;
-  else
-    symhash = fp->ctf_objthash;
-
-  for (i = 0; i < nidx; i++)
-    {
-      const char *sym_name;
-      void *type;
-
-      /* If we have a linker-reported set of symbols, we may be given that set
-	 to work from, or a set of symbol names.  In both cases we want to look
-	 at the corresponding linker-reported symbol (if any).  */
-      if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
-	{
-	  ctf_link_sym_t *this_link_sym;
-
-	  if (idx)
-	    this_link_sym = idx[i];
-	  else
-	    this_link_sym = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, nameidx[i]);
-
-	  /* Unreported symbol number.  No pad, no nothing.  */
-	  if (!this_link_sym)
-	    continue;
-
-	  /* Symbol of the wrong type, or skippable?  This symbol is not in this
-	     table.  */
-	  if (((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-	       && this_link_sym->st_type != STT_FUNC)
-	      || (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-		  && this_link_sym->st_type != STT_OBJECT))
-	    continue;
-
-	  if (ctf_symtab_skippable (this_link_sym))
-	    continue;
-
-	  sym_name = this_link_sym->st_name;
-
-	  /* Linker reports symbol of a different type to the symbol we actually
-	     added?  Skip the symbol.  No pad, since the symbol doesn't actually
-	     belong in this table at all.  (Warned about in
-	     symtypetab_density.)  */
-	  if ((this_link_sym->st_type == STT_FUNC)
-	      && (ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_objthash, sym_name)))
-	    continue;
-
-	  if ((this_link_sym->st_type == STT_OBJECT)
-	      && (ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_funchash, sym_name)))
-	    continue;
-	}
-      else
-	sym_name = nameidx[i];
-
-      /* Symbol in index but no type set? Silently skip and (optionally)
-	 pad.  (In force-indexed mode, this is also where we track symbols of
-	 the wrong type for this round of insertion.)  */
-      if ((type = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symhash, sym_name)) == NULL)
-	{
-	  if (flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD)
-	    *dpp++ = 0;
-	  continue;
-	}
-
-      if (!ctf_assert (fp, (((char *) dpp) - (char *) dp) < size))
-	return -1;				/* errno is set for us.  */
-
-      *dpp++ = (ctf_id_t) (uintptr_t) type;
-
-      /* When emitting unindexed output, all later symbols are pads: stop
-	 early.  */
-      if ((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD) && idx[i]->st_symidx == outmax)
-	break;
-    }
-
-  return 0;
-}
-
-/* Emit an objt or func symtypetab index into DP in a paticular order defined by
-   an array of symbol names passed in.  Stop at NIDX.  The linker-reported set
-   of symbols (if any) is found in SYMFP. */
-static int
-emit_symtypetab_index (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dict_t *symfp, uint32_t *dp,
-		       const char **idx, uint32_t nidx, int size, int flags)
-{
-  uint32_t i;
-  uint32_t *dpp = dp;
-  ctf_dynhash_t *symhash;
-
-  ctf_dprintf ("Emitting index of size %i, %u entries reported by linker, "
-	       "flags %i\n", size, nidx, flags);
-
-  /* Empty table? Nothing to do.  */
-  if (size == 0)
-    return 0;
-
-  if (flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-    symhash = fp->ctf_funchash;
-  else
-    symhash = fp->ctf_objthash;
-
-  /* Indexes should always be unpadded.  */
-  if (!ctf_assert (fp, !(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD)))
-    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
-
-  for (i = 0; i < nidx; i++)
-    {
-      const char *sym_name;
-      void *type;
-
-      if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
-	{
-	  ctf_link_sym_t *this_link_sym;
-
-	  this_link_sym = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, idx[i]);
-
-	  /* This is an index: unreported symbols should never appear in it.  */
-	  if (!ctf_assert (fp, this_link_sym != NULL))
-	    return -1;				/* errno is set for us.  */
-
-	  /* Symbol of the wrong type, or skippable?  This symbol is not in this
-	     table.  */
-	  if (((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-	       && this_link_sym->st_type != STT_FUNC)
-	      || (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
-		  && this_link_sym->st_type != STT_OBJECT))
-	    continue;
-
-	  if (ctf_symtab_skippable (this_link_sym))
-	    continue;
-
-	  sym_name = this_link_sym->st_name;
-
-	  /* Linker reports symbol of a different type to the symbol we actually
-	     added?  Skip the symbol.  */
-	  if ((this_link_sym->st_type == STT_FUNC)
-	      && (ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_objthash, sym_name)))
-	    continue;
-
-	  if ((this_link_sym->st_type == STT_OBJECT)
-	      && (ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_funchash, sym_name)))
-	    continue;
-	}
-      else
-	sym_name = idx[i];
-
-      /* Symbol in index and reported by linker, but no type set? Silently skip
-	 and (optionally) pad.  (In force-indexed mode, this is also where we
-	 track symbols of the wrong type for this round of insertion.)  */
-      if ((type = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symhash, sym_name)) == NULL)
-	continue;
-
-      ctf_str_add_ref (fp, sym_name, dpp++);
-
-      if (!ctf_assert (fp, (((char *) dpp) - (char *) dp) <= size))
-	return -1;				/* errno is set for us.  */
-    }
-
-  return 0;
-}
-
-static unsigned char *
-ctf_copy_smembers (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dtdef_t *dtd, unsigned char *t)
-{
-  ctf_dmdef_t *dmd = ctf_list_next (&dtd->dtd_u.dtu_members);
-  ctf_member_t ctm;
-
-  for (; dmd != NULL; dmd = ctf_list_next (dmd))
-    {
-      ctf_member_t *copied;
-
-      ctm.ctm_name = 0;
-      ctm.ctm_type = (uint32_t) dmd->dmd_type;
-      ctm.ctm_offset = (uint32_t) dmd->dmd_offset;
-
-      memcpy (t, &ctm, sizeof (ctm));
-      copied = (ctf_member_t *) t;
-      if (dmd->dmd_name)
-	ctf_str_add_ref (fp, dmd->dmd_name, &copied->ctm_name);
-
-      t += sizeof (ctm);
-    }
-
-  return t;
-}
-
-static unsigned char *
-ctf_copy_lmembers (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dtdef_t *dtd, unsigned char *t)
-{
-  ctf_dmdef_t *dmd = ctf_list_next (&dtd->dtd_u.dtu_members);
-  ctf_lmember_t ctlm;
-
-  for (; dmd != NULL; dmd = ctf_list_next (dmd))
-    {
-      ctf_lmember_t *copied;
-
-      ctlm.ctlm_name = 0;
-      ctlm.ctlm_type = (uint32_t) dmd->dmd_type;
-      ctlm.ctlm_offsethi = CTF_OFFSET_TO_LMEMHI (dmd->dmd_offset);
-      ctlm.ctlm_offsetlo = CTF_OFFSET_TO_LMEMLO (dmd->dmd_offset);
-
-      memcpy (t, &ctlm, sizeof (ctlm));
-      copied = (ctf_lmember_t *) t;
-      if (dmd->dmd_name)
-	ctf_str_add_ref (fp, dmd->dmd_name, &copied->ctlm_name);
-
-      t += sizeof (ctlm);
-    }
-
-  return t;
-}
-
-static unsigned char *
-ctf_copy_emembers (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dtdef_t *dtd, unsigned char *t)
-{
-  ctf_dmdef_t *dmd = ctf_list_next (&dtd->dtd_u.dtu_members);
-  ctf_enum_t cte;
-
-  for (; dmd != NULL; dmd = ctf_list_next (dmd))
-    {
-      ctf_enum_t *copied;
-
-      cte.cte_value = dmd->dmd_value;
-      memcpy (t, &cte, sizeof (cte));
-      copied = (ctf_enum_t *) t;
-      ctf_str_add_ref (fp, dmd->dmd_name, &copied->cte_name);
-      t += sizeof (cte);
-    }
-
-  return t;
-}
-
-/* Sort a newly-constructed static variable array.  */
-
-typedef struct ctf_sort_var_arg_cb
-{
-  ctf_dict_t *fp;
-  ctf_strs_t *strtab;
-} ctf_sort_var_arg_cb_t;
-
-static int
-ctf_sort_var (const void *one_, const void *two_, void *arg_)
-{
-  const ctf_varent_t *one = one_;
-  const ctf_varent_t *two = two_;
-  ctf_sort_var_arg_cb_t *arg = arg_;
-
-  return (strcmp (ctf_strraw_explicit (arg->fp, one->ctv_name, arg->strtab),
-		  ctf_strraw_explicit (arg->fp, two->ctv_name, arg->strtab)));
-}
-
 /* Compatibility: just update the threshold for ctf_discard.  */
 int
 ctf_update (ctf_dict_t *fp)
@@ -669,627 +173,6 @@ ctf_update (ctf_dict_t *fp)
   return 0;
 }
 
-/* If the specified CTF dict is writable and has been modified, reload this dict
-   with the updated type definitions, ready for serialization.  In order to make
-   this code and the rest of libctf as simple as possible, we perform updates by
-   taking the dynamic type definitions and creating an in-memory CTF dict
-   containing the definitions, and then call ctf_simple_open_internal() on it.
-   We perform one extra trick here for the benefit of callers and to keep our
-   code simple: ctf_simple_open_internal() will return a new ctf_dict_t, but we
-   want to keep the fp constant for the caller, so after
-   ctf_simple_open_internal() returns, we use memcpy to swap the interior of the
-   old and new ctf_dict_t's, and then free the old.  */
-int
-ctf_serialize (ctf_dict_t *fp)
-{
-  ctf_dict_t ofp, *nfp;
-  ctf_header_t hdr, *hdrp;
-  ctf_dtdef_t *dtd;
-  ctf_dvdef_t *dvd;
-  ctf_varent_t *dvarents;
-  ctf_strs_writable_t strtab;
-
-  unsigned char *t;
-  unsigned long i;
-  size_t buf_size, type_size, objt_size, func_size;
-  size_t objt_unpadsize, func_unpadsize, objt_padsize, func_padsize;
-  size_t funcidx_size, objtidx_size;
-  size_t nvars, nfuncs, nobjts, maxobjt, maxfunc;
-  size_t nsymtypes = 0;
-  const char **sym_name_order = NULL;
-  unsigned char *buf = NULL, *newbuf;
-  int err;
-
-  /* Symtab filtering. If filter_syms is true, symfp is set: otherwise,
-     CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED is set in symflags.  */
-  int filter_syms = 0;
-  int sort_syms = 1;
-  int symflags = 0;
-  ctf_dict_t *symfp = NULL;
-
-  if (!(fp->ctf_flags & LCTF_RDWR))
-    return (ctf_set_errno (fp, ECTF_RDONLY));
-
-  /* Update required?  */
-  if (!(fp->ctf_flags & LCTF_DIRTY))
-    return 0;
-
-  /* If doing a writeout as part of linking, and the link flags request it,
-     filter out reported symbols from the variable section, and filter out all
-     other symbols from the symtypetab sections.  (If we are not linking, the
-     symbols are sorted; if we are linking, don't bother sorting if we are not
-     filtering out reported symbols: this is almost certaily an ld -r and only
-     the linker is likely to consume these symtypetabs again.  The linker
-     doesn't care what order the symtypetab entries is in, since it only
-     iterates over symbols and does not use the ctf_lookup_by_symbol* API.)  */
-
-  if (fp->ctf_flags & LCTF_LINKING)
-    {
-      filter_syms = !(fp->ctf_link_flags & CTF_LINK_NO_FILTER_REPORTED_SYMS);
-      if (!filter_syms)
-	sort_syms = 0;
-    }
-
-  /* Fill in an initial CTF header.  We will leave the label, object,
-     and function sections empty and only output a header, type section,
-     and string table.  The type section begins at a 4-byte aligned
-     boundary past the CTF header itself (at relative offset zero).  The flag
-     indicating a new-style function info section (an array of CTF_K_FUNCTION
-     type IDs in the types section) is flipped on.  */
-
-  memset (&hdr, 0, sizeof (hdr));
-  hdr.cth_magic = CTF_MAGIC;
-  hdr.cth_version = CTF_VERSION;
-
-  /* This is a new-format func info section, and the symtab and strtab come out
-     of the dynsym and dynstr these days.  */
-  hdr.cth_flags = (CTF_F_NEWFUNCINFO | CTF_F_DYNSTR);
-
-  /* Iterate through the dynamic type definition list and compute the
-     size of the CTF type section we will need to generate.  */
-
-  for (type_size = 0, dtd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dtdefs);
-       dtd != NULL; dtd = ctf_list_next (dtd))
-    {
-      uint32_t kind = LCTF_INFO_KIND (fp, dtd->dtd_data.ctt_info);
-      uint32_t vlen = LCTF_INFO_VLEN (fp, dtd->dtd_data.ctt_info);
-
-      if (dtd->dtd_data.ctt_size != CTF_LSIZE_SENT)
-	type_size += sizeof (ctf_stype_t);
-      else
-	type_size += sizeof (ctf_type_t);
-
-      switch (kind)
-	{
-	case CTF_K_INTEGER:
-	case CTF_K_FLOAT:
-	  type_size += sizeof (uint32_t);
-	  break;
-	case CTF_K_ARRAY:
-	  type_size += sizeof (ctf_array_t);
-	  break;
-	case CTF_K_SLICE:
-	  type_size += sizeof (ctf_slice_t);
-	  break;
-	case CTF_K_FUNCTION:
-	  type_size += sizeof (uint32_t) * (vlen + (vlen & 1));
-	  break;
-	case CTF_K_STRUCT:
-	case CTF_K_UNION:
-	  if (dtd->dtd_data.ctt_size < CTF_LSTRUCT_THRESH)
-	    type_size += sizeof (ctf_member_t) * vlen;
-	  else
-	    type_size += sizeof (ctf_lmember_t) * vlen;
-	  break;
-	case CTF_K_ENUM:
-	  type_size += sizeof (ctf_enum_t) * vlen;
-	  break;
-	}
-    }
-
-  /* Find the dict to which the linker has reported symbols, if any.  */
-
-  if (filter_syms)
-    {
-      if (!fp->ctf_dynsyms && fp->ctf_parent && fp->ctf_parent->ctf_dynsyms)
-	symfp = fp->ctf_parent;
-      else
-	symfp = fp;
-    }
-
-  /* If not filtering, keep all potential symbols in an unsorted, indexed
-     dict.  */
-  if (!filter_syms)
-    symflags = CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED;
-  else
-    hdr.cth_flags |= CTF_F_IDXSORTED;
-
-  if (!ctf_assert (fp, (filter_syms && symfp)
-		   || (!filter_syms && !symfp
-		       && ((symflags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED) != 0))))
-    return -1;
-
-  /* Work out the sizes of the object and function sections, and work out the
-     number of pad (unassigned) symbols in each, and the overall size of the
-     sections.  */
-
-  if (symtypetab_density (fp, symfp, fp->ctf_objthash, &nobjts, &maxobjt,
-			  &objt_unpadsize, &objt_padsize, &objtidx_size,
-			  symflags) < 0)
-    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
-
-  ctf_dprintf ("Object symtypetab: %i objects, max %i, unpadded size %i, "
-	       "%i bytes of pads, index size %i\n", (int) nobjts, (int) maxobjt,
-	       (int) objt_unpadsize, (int) objt_padsize, (int) objtidx_size);
-
-  if (symtypetab_density (fp, symfp, fp->ctf_funchash, &nfuncs, &maxfunc,
-			  &func_unpadsize, &func_padsize, &funcidx_size,
-			  symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION) < 0)
-    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
-
-  ctf_dprintf ("Function symtypetab: %i functions, max %i, unpadded size %i, "
-	       "%i bytes of pads, index size %i\n", (int) nfuncs, (int) maxfunc,
-	       (int) func_unpadsize, (int) func_padsize, (int) funcidx_size);
-
-  /* If we are filtering symbols out, those symbols that the linker has not
-     reported have now been removed from the ctf_objthash and ctf_funchash.
-     Delete entries from the variable section that duplicate newly-added data
-     symbols.  There's no need to migrate new ones in, because the compiler
-     always emits both a variable and a data symbol simultaneously, and
-     filtering only happens at final link time.  */
-
-  if (filter_syms && symfp->ctf_dynsyms &&
-      symtypetab_delete_nonstatic_vars (fp, symfp) < 0)
-    return -1;
-
-  /* It is worth indexing each section if it would save space to do so, due to
-     reducing the number of pads sufficiently.  A pad is the same size as a
-     single index entry: but index sections compress relatively poorly compared
-     to constant pads, so it takes a lot of contiguous padding to equal one
-     index section entry.  It would be nice to be able to *verify* whether we
-     would save space after compression rather than guessing, but this seems
-     difficult, since it would require complete reserialization.  Regardless, if
-     the linker has not reported any symbols (e.g. if this is not a final link
-     but just an ld -r), we must emit things in indexed fashion just as the
-     compiler does.  */
-
-  objt_size = objt_unpadsize;
-  if (!(symflags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED)
-      && ((objt_padsize + objt_unpadsize) * CTF_INDEX_PAD_THRESHOLD
-	  > objt_padsize))
-    {
-      objt_size += objt_padsize;
-      objtidx_size = 0;
-    }
-
-  func_size = func_unpadsize;
-  if (!(symflags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED)
-      && ((func_padsize + func_unpadsize) * CTF_INDEX_PAD_THRESHOLD
-	  > func_padsize))
-    {
-      func_size += func_padsize;
-      funcidx_size = 0;
-    }
-
-  /* Computing the number of entries in the CTF variable section is much
-     simpler.  */
-
-  for (nvars = 0, dvd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dvdefs);
-       dvd != NULL; dvd = ctf_list_next (dvd), nvars++);
-
-  /* Compute the size of the CTF buffer we need, sans only the string table,
-     then allocate a new buffer and memcpy the finished header to the start of
-     the buffer.  (We will adjust this later with strtab length info.)  */
-
-  hdr.cth_lbloff = hdr.cth_objtoff = 0;
-  hdr.cth_funcoff = hdr.cth_objtoff + objt_size;
-  hdr.cth_objtidxoff = hdr.cth_funcoff + func_size;
-  hdr.cth_funcidxoff = hdr.cth_objtidxoff + objtidx_size;
-  hdr.cth_varoff = hdr.cth_funcidxoff + funcidx_size;
-  hdr.cth_typeoff = hdr.cth_varoff + (nvars * sizeof (ctf_varent_t));
-  hdr.cth_stroff = hdr.cth_typeoff + type_size;
-  hdr.cth_strlen = 0;
-
-  buf_size = sizeof (ctf_header_t) + hdr.cth_stroff + hdr.cth_strlen;
-
-  if ((buf = malloc (buf_size)) == NULL)
-    return (ctf_set_errno (fp, EAGAIN));
-
-  memcpy (buf, &hdr, sizeof (ctf_header_t));
-  t = (unsigned char *) buf + sizeof (ctf_header_t) + hdr.cth_objtoff;
-
-  hdrp = (ctf_header_t *) buf;
-  if ((fp->ctf_flags & LCTF_CHILD) && (fp->ctf_parname != NULL))
-    ctf_str_add_ref (fp, fp->ctf_parname, &hdrp->cth_parname);
-  if (fp->ctf_cuname != NULL)
-    ctf_str_add_ref (fp, fp->ctf_cuname, &hdrp->cth_cuname);
-
-  /* Sort the linker's symbols into name order if need be.  */
-
-  if ((objtidx_size != 0) || (funcidx_size != 0))
-    {
-      ctf_next_t *i = NULL;
-      void *symname;
-      const char **walk;
-
-      if (filter_syms)
-	{
-	  if (symfp->ctf_dynsyms)
-	    nsymtypes = ctf_dynhash_elements (symfp->ctf_dynsyms);
-	  else
-	    nsymtypes = 0;
-	}
-      else
-	nsymtypes = ctf_dynhash_elements (fp->ctf_objthash)
-	  + ctf_dynhash_elements (fp->ctf_funchash);
-
-      if ((sym_name_order = calloc (nsymtypes, sizeof (const char *))) == NULL)
-	goto oom;
-
-      walk = sym_name_order;
-
-      if (filter_syms)
-	{
-	  if (symfp->ctf_dynsyms)
-	    {
-	      while ((err = ctf_dynhash_next_sorted (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, &i,
-						     &symname, NULL,
-						     ctf_dynhash_sort_by_name,
-						     NULL)) == 0)
-		*walk++ = (const char *) symname;
-	      if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
-		goto symerr;
-	    }
-	}
-      else
-	{
-	  ctf_hash_sort_f sort_fun = NULL;
-
-	  /* Since we partition the set of symbols back into objt and func,
-	     we can sort the two independently without harm.  */
-	  if (sort_syms)
-	    sort_fun = ctf_dynhash_sort_by_name;
-
-	  while ((err = ctf_dynhash_next_sorted (fp->ctf_objthash, &i, &symname,
-						 NULL, sort_fun, NULL)) == 0)
-	    *walk++ = (const char *) symname;
-	  if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
-	    goto symerr;
-
-	  while ((err = ctf_dynhash_next_sorted (fp->ctf_funchash, &i, &symname,
-						 NULL, sort_fun, NULL)) == 0)
-	    *walk++ = (const char *) symname;
-	  if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
-	    goto symerr;
-	}
-    }
-
-  /* Emit the object and function sections, and if necessary their indexes.
-     Emission is done in symtab order if there is no index, and in index
-     (name) order otherwise.  */
-
-  if ((objtidx_size == 0) && symfp && symfp->ctf_dynsymidx)
-    {
-      ctf_dprintf ("Emitting unindexed objt symtypetab\n");
-      if (emit_symtypetab (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, symfp->ctf_dynsymidx,
-			   NULL, symfp->ctf_dynsymmax + 1, maxobjt, objt_size,
-			   symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD) < 0)
-	goto err;				/* errno is set for us.  */
-    }
-  else
-    {
-      ctf_dprintf ("Emitting indexed objt symtypetab\n");
-      if (emit_symtypetab (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, NULL, sym_name_order,
-			   nsymtypes, maxobjt, objt_size, symflags) < 0)
-	goto err;				/* errno is set for us.  */
-    }
-
-  t += objt_size;
-
-  if ((funcidx_size == 0) && symfp && symfp->ctf_dynsymidx)
-    {
-      ctf_dprintf ("Emitting unindexed func symtypetab\n");
-      if (emit_symtypetab (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, symfp->ctf_dynsymidx,
-			   NULL, symfp->ctf_dynsymmax + 1, maxfunc,
-			   func_size, symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION
-			   | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD) < 0)
-	goto err;				/* errno is set for us.  */
-    }
-  else
-    {
-      ctf_dprintf ("Emitting indexed func symtypetab\n");
-      if (emit_symtypetab (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, NULL, sym_name_order,
-			   nsymtypes, maxfunc, func_size,
-			   symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION) < 0)
-	goto err;				/* errno is set for us.  */
-    }
-
-  t += func_size;
-
-  if (objtidx_size > 0)
-    if (emit_symtypetab_index (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, sym_name_order,
-			       nsymtypes, objtidx_size, symflags) < 0)
-      goto err;
-
-  t += objtidx_size;
-
-  if (funcidx_size > 0)
-    if (emit_symtypetab_index (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, sym_name_order,
-			       nsymtypes, funcidx_size,
-			       symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION) < 0)
-      goto err;
-
-  t += funcidx_size;
-  free (sym_name_order);
-  sym_name_order = NULL;
-
-  /* Work over the variable list, translating everything into ctf_varent_t's and
-     prepping the string table.  */
-
-  dvarents = (ctf_varent_t *) t;
-  for (i = 0, dvd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dvdefs); dvd != NULL;
-       dvd = ctf_list_next (dvd), i++)
-    {
-      ctf_varent_t *var = &dvarents[i];
-
-      ctf_str_add_ref (fp, dvd->dvd_name, &var->ctv_name);
-      var->ctv_type = (uint32_t) dvd->dvd_type;
-    }
-  assert (i == nvars);
-
-  t += sizeof (ctf_varent_t) * nvars;
-
-  assert (t == (unsigned char *) buf + sizeof (ctf_header_t) + hdr.cth_typeoff);
-
-  /* We now take a final lap through the dynamic type definition list and copy
-     the appropriate type records to the output buffer, noting down the
-     strings as we go.  */
-
-  for (dtd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dtdefs);
-       dtd != NULL; dtd = ctf_list_next (dtd))
-    {
-      uint32_t kind = LCTF_INFO_KIND (fp, dtd->dtd_data.ctt_info);
-      uint32_t vlen = LCTF_INFO_VLEN (fp, dtd->dtd_data.ctt_info);
-
-      ctf_array_t cta;
-      uint32_t encoding;
-      size_t len;
-      ctf_stype_t *copied;
-      const char *name;
-
-      if (dtd->dtd_data.ctt_size != CTF_LSIZE_SENT)
-	len = sizeof (ctf_stype_t);
-      else
-	len = sizeof (ctf_type_t);
-
-      memcpy (t, &dtd->dtd_data, len);
-      copied = (ctf_stype_t *) t;  /* name is at the start: constant offset.  */
-      if (copied->ctt_name
-	  && (name = ctf_strraw (fp, copied->ctt_name)) != NULL)
-	ctf_str_add_ref (fp, name, &copied->ctt_name);
-      t += len;
-
-      switch (kind)
-	{
-	case CTF_K_INTEGER:
-	case CTF_K_FLOAT:
-	  if (kind == CTF_K_INTEGER)
-	    {
-	      encoding = CTF_INT_DATA (dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_format,
-				       dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_offset,
-				       dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_bits);
-	    }
-	  else
-	    {
-	      encoding = CTF_FP_DATA (dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_format,
-				      dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_offset,
-				      dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_bits);
-	    }
-	  memcpy (t, &encoding, sizeof (encoding));
-	  t += sizeof (encoding);
-	  break;
-
-	case CTF_K_SLICE:
-	  memcpy (t, &dtd->dtd_u.dtu_slice, sizeof (struct ctf_slice));
-	  t += sizeof (struct ctf_slice);
-	  break;
-
-	case CTF_K_ARRAY:
-	  cta.cta_contents = (uint32_t) dtd->dtd_u.dtu_arr.ctr_contents;
-	  cta.cta_index = (uint32_t) dtd->dtd_u.dtu_arr.ctr_index;
-	  cta.cta_nelems = dtd->dtd_u.dtu_arr.ctr_nelems;
-	  memcpy (t, &cta, sizeof (cta));
-	  t += sizeof (cta);
-	  break;
-
-	case CTF_K_FUNCTION:
-	  {
-	    uint32_t *argv = (uint32_t *) (uintptr_t) t;
-	    uint32_t argc;
-
-	    for (argc = 0; argc < vlen; argc++)
-	      *argv++ = dtd->dtd_u.dtu_argv[argc];
-
-	    if (vlen & 1)
-	      *argv++ = 0;	/* Pad to 4-byte boundary.  */
-
-	    t = (unsigned char *) argv;
-	    break;
-	  }
-
-	case CTF_K_STRUCT:
-	case CTF_K_UNION:
-	  if (dtd->dtd_data.ctt_size < CTF_LSTRUCT_THRESH)
-	    t = ctf_copy_smembers (fp, dtd, t);
-	  else
-	    t = ctf_copy_lmembers (fp, dtd, t);
-	  break;
-
-	case CTF_K_ENUM:
-	  t = ctf_copy_emembers (fp, dtd, t);
-	  break;
-	}
-    }
-  assert (t == (unsigned char *) buf + sizeof (ctf_header_t) + hdr.cth_stroff);
-
-  /* Construct the final string table and fill out all the string refs with the
-     final offsets.  Then purge the refs list, because we're about to move this
-     strtab onto the end of the buf, invalidating all the offsets.  */
-  strtab = ctf_str_write_strtab (fp);
-  ctf_str_purge_refs (fp);
-
-  if (strtab.cts_strs == NULL)
-    goto oom;
-
-  /* Now the string table is constructed, we can sort the buffer of
-     ctf_varent_t's.  */
-  ctf_sort_var_arg_cb_t sort_var_arg = { fp, (ctf_strs_t *) &strtab };
-  ctf_qsort_r (dvarents, nvars, sizeof (ctf_varent_t), ctf_sort_var,
-	       &sort_var_arg);
-
-  if ((newbuf = ctf_realloc (fp, buf, buf_size + strtab.cts_len)) == NULL)
-    {
-      free (strtab.cts_strs);
-      goto oom;
-    }
-  buf = newbuf;
-  memcpy (buf + buf_size, strtab.cts_strs, strtab.cts_len);
-  hdrp = (ctf_header_t *) buf;
-  hdrp->cth_strlen = strtab.cts_len;
-  buf_size += hdrp->cth_strlen;
-  free (strtab.cts_strs);
-
-  /* Finally, we are ready to ctf_simple_open() the new dict.  If this is
-     successful, we then switch nfp and fp and free the old dict.  */
-
-  if ((nfp = ctf_simple_open_internal ((char *) buf, buf_size, NULL, 0,
-				       0, NULL, 0, fp->ctf_syn_ext_strtab,
-				       1, &err)) == NULL)
-    {
-      free (buf);
-      return (ctf_set_errno (fp, err));
-    }
-
-  (void) ctf_setmodel (nfp, ctf_getmodel (fp));
-
-  nfp->ctf_parent = fp->ctf_parent;
-  nfp->ctf_parent_unreffed = fp->ctf_parent_unreffed;
-  nfp->ctf_refcnt = fp->ctf_refcnt;
-  nfp->ctf_flags |= fp->ctf_flags & ~LCTF_DIRTY;
-  if (nfp->ctf_dynbase == NULL)
-    nfp->ctf_dynbase = buf;		/* Make sure buf is freed on close.  */
-  nfp->ctf_dthash = fp->ctf_dthash;
-  nfp->ctf_dtdefs = fp->ctf_dtdefs;
-  nfp->ctf_dvhash = fp->ctf_dvhash;
-  nfp->ctf_dvdefs = fp->ctf_dvdefs;
-  nfp->ctf_dtoldid = fp->ctf_dtoldid;
-  nfp->ctf_add_processing = fp->ctf_add_processing;
-  nfp->ctf_snapshots = fp->ctf_snapshots + 1;
-  nfp->ctf_specific = fp->ctf_specific;
-  nfp->ctf_nfuncidx = fp->ctf_nfuncidx;
-  nfp->ctf_nobjtidx = fp->ctf_nobjtidx;
-  nfp->ctf_objthash = fp->ctf_objthash;
-  nfp->ctf_funchash = fp->ctf_funchash;
-  nfp->ctf_dynsyms = fp->ctf_dynsyms;
-  nfp->ctf_ptrtab = fp->ctf_ptrtab;
-  nfp->ctf_pptrtab = fp->ctf_pptrtab;
-  nfp->ctf_dynsymidx = fp->ctf_dynsymidx;
-  nfp->ctf_dynsymmax = fp->ctf_dynsymmax;
-  nfp->ctf_ptrtab_len = fp->ctf_ptrtab_len;
-  nfp->ctf_pptrtab_len = fp->ctf_pptrtab_len;
-  nfp->ctf_link_inputs = fp->ctf_link_inputs;
-  nfp->ctf_link_outputs = fp->ctf_link_outputs;
-  nfp->ctf_errs_warnings = fp->ctf_errs_warnings;
-  nfp->ctf_funcidx_names = fp->ctf_funcidx_names;
-  nfp->ctf_objtidx_names = fp->ctf_objtidx_names;
-  nfp->ctf_funcidx_sxlate = fp->ctf_funcidx_sxlate;
-  nfp->ctf_objtidx_sxlate = fp->ctf_objtidx_sxlate;
-  nfp->ctf_str_prov_offset = fp->ctf_str_prov_offset;
-  nfp->ctf_syn_ext_strtab = fp->ctf_syn_ext_strtab;
-  nfp->ctf_pptrtab_typemax = fp->ctf_pptrtab_typemax;
-  nfp->ctf_in_flight_dynsyms = fp->ctf_in_flight_dynsyms;
-  nfp->ctf_link_in_cu_mapping = fp->ctf_link_in_cu_mapping;
-  nfp->ctf_link_out_cu_mapping = fp->ctf_link_out_cu_mapping;
-  nfp->ctf_link_type_mapping = fp->ctf_link_type_mapping;
-  nfp->ctf_link_memb_name_changer = fp->ctf_link_memb_name_changer;
-  nfp->ctf_link_memb_name_changer_arg = fp->ctf_link_memb_name_changer_arg;
-  nfp->ctf_link_variable_filter = fp->ctf_link_variable_filter;
-  nfp->ctf_link_variable_filter_arg = fp->ctf_link_variable_filter_arg;
-  nfp->ctf_symsect_little_endian = fp->ctf_symsect_little_endian;
-  nfp->ctf_link_flags = fp->ctf_link_flags;
-  nfp->ctf_dedup_atoms = fp->ctf_dedup_atoms;
-  nfp->ctf_dedup_atoms_alloc = fp->ctf_dedup_atoms_alloc;
-  memcpy (&nfp->ctf_dedup, &fp->ctf_dedup, sizeof (fp->ctf_dedup));
-
-  nfp->ctf_snapshot_lu = fp->ctf_snapshots;
-
-  memcpy (&nfp->ctf_lookups, fp->ctf_lookups, sizeof (fp->ctf_lookups));
-  nfp->ctf_structs = fp->ctf_structs;
-  nfp->ctf_unions = fp->ctf_unions;
-  nfp->ctf_enums = fp->ctf_enums;
-  nfp->ctf_names = fp->ctf_names;
-
-  fp->ctf_dthash = NULL;
-  ctf_str_free_atoms (nfp);
-  nfp->ctf_str_atoms = fp->ctf_str_atoms;
-  nfp->ctf_prov_strtab = fp->ctf_prov_strtab;
-  fp->ctf_str_atoms = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_prov_strtab = NULL;
-  memset (&fp->ctf_dtdefs, 0, sizeof (ctf_list_t));
-  memset (&fp->ctf_errs_warnings, 0, sizeof (ctf_list_t));
-  fp->ctf_add_processing = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_ptrtab = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_pptrtab = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_funcidx_names = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_objtidx_names = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_funcidx_sxlate = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_objtidx_sxlate = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_objthash = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_funchash = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_dynsyms = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_dynsymidx = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_link_inputs = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_link_outputs = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_syn_ext_strtab = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_link_in_cu_mapping = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_link_out_cu_mapping = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_link_type_mapping = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_dedup_atoms = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_dedup_atoms_alloc = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_parent_unreffed = 1;
-
-  fp->ctf_dvhash = NULL;
-  memset (&fp->ctf_dvdefs, 0, sizeof (ctf_list_t));
-  memset (fp->ctf_lookups, 0, sizeof (fp->ctf_lookups));
-  memset (&fp->ctf_in_flight_dynsyms, 0, sizeof (fp->ctf_in_flight_dynsyms));
-  memset (&fp->ctf_dedup, 0, sizeof (fp->ctf_dedup));
-  fp->ctf_structs.ctn_writable = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_unions.ctn_writable = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_enums.ctn_writable = NULL;
-  fp->ctf_names.ctn_writable = NULL;
-
-  memcpy (&ofp, fp, sizeof (ctf_dict_t));
-  memcpy (fp, nfp, sizeof (ctf_dict_t));
-  memcpy (nfp, &ofp, sizeof (ctf_dict_t));
-
-  nfp->ctf_refcnt = 1;				/* Force nfp to be freed.  */
-  ctf_dict_close (nfp);
-
-  return 0;
-
-symerr:
-  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, err, _("error serializing symtypetabs"));
-  goto err;
-oom:
-  free (buf);
-  free (sym_name_order);
-  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, EAGAIN));
-err:
-  free (buf);
-  free (sym_name_order);
-  return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
-}
-
 ctf_names_t *
 ctf_name_table (ctf_dict_t *fp, int kind)
 {
@@ -3038,195 +1921,3 @@ ctf_add_type (ctf_dict_t *dst_fp, ctf_dict_t *src_fp, ctf_id_t src_type)
 
   return id;
 }
-
-/* Write the compressed CTF data stream to the specified gzFile descriptor.  */
-int
-ctf_gzwrite (ctf_dict_t *fp, gzFile fd)
-{
-  const unsigned char *buf;
-  ssize_t resid;
-  ssize_t len;
-
-  resid = sizeof (ctf_header_t);
-  buf = (unsigned char *) fp->ctf_header;
-  while (resid != 0)
-    {
-      if ((len = gzwrite (fd, buf, resid)) <= 0)
-	return (ctf_set_errno (fp, errno));
-      resid -= len;
-      buf += len;
-    }
-
-  resid = fp->ctf_size;
-  buf = fp->ctf_buf;
-  while (resid != 0)
-    {
-      if ((len = gzwrite (fd, buf, resid)) <= 0)
-	return (ctf_set_errno (fp, errno));
-      resid -= len;
-      buf += len;
-    }
-
-  return 0;
-}
-
-/* Compress the specified CTF data stream and write it to the specified file
-   descriptor.  */
-int
-ctf_compress_write (ctf_dict_t *fp, int fd)
-{
-  unsigned char *buf;
-  unsigned char *bp;
-  ctf_header_t h;
-  ctf_header_t *hp = &h;
-  ssize_t header_len = sizeof (ctf_header_t);
-  ssize_t compress_len;
-  ssize_t len;
-  int rc;
-  int err = 0;
-
-  if (ctf_serialize (fp) < 0)
-    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
-
-  memcpy (hp, fp->ctf_header, header_len);
-  hp->cth_flags |= CTF_F_COMPRESS;
-  compress_len = compressBound (fp->ctf_size);
-
-  if ((buf = malloc (compress_len)) == NULL)
-    {
-      ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("ctf_compress_write: cannot allocate %li bytes"),
-		    (unsigned long) compress_len);
-      return (ctf_set_errno (fp, ECTF_ZALLOC));
-    }
-
-  if ((rc = compress (buf, (uLongf *) &compress_len,
-		      fp->ctf_buf, fp->ctf_size)) != Z_OK)
-    {
-      err = ctf_set_errno (fp, ECTF_COMPRESS);
-      ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("zlib deflate err: %s"), zError (rc));
-      goto ret;
-    }
-
-  while (header_len > 0)
-    {
-      if ((len = write (fd, hp, header_len)) < 0)
-	{
-	  err = ctf_set_errno (fp, errno);
-	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("ctf_compress_write: error writing header"));
-	  goto ret;
-	}
-      header_len -= len;
-      hp += len;
-    }
-
-  bp = buf;
-  while (compress_len > 0)
-    {
-      if ((len = write (fd, bp, compress_len)) < 0)
-	{
-	  err = ctf_set_errno (fp, errno);
-	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("ctf_compress_write: error writing"));
-	  goto ret;
-	}
-      compress_len -= len;
-      bp += len;
-    }
-
-ret:
-  free (buf);
-  return err;
-}
-
-/* Optionally compress the specified CTF data stream and return it as a new
-   dynamically-allocated string.  */
-unsigned char *
-ctf_write_mem (ctf_dict_t *fp, size_t *size, size_t threshold)
-{
-  unsigned char *buf;
-  unsigned char *bp;
-  ctf_header_t *hp;
-  ssize_t header_len = sizeof (ctf_header_t);
-  ssize_t compress_len;
-  int rc;
-
-  if (ctf_serialize (fp) < 0)
-    return NULL;				/* errno is set for us.  */
-
-  compress_len = compressBound (fp->ctf_size);
-  if (fp->ctf_size < threshold)
-    compress_len = fp->ctf_size;
-  if ((buf = malloc (compress_len
-		     + sizeof (struct ctf_header))) == NULL)
-    {
-      ctf_set_errno (fp, ENOMEM);
-      ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("ctf_write_mem: cannot allocate %li bytes"),
-		    (unsigned long) (compress_len + sizeof (struct ctf_header)));
-      return NULL;
-    }
-
-  hp = (ctf_header_t *) buf;
-  memcpy (hp, fp->ctf_header, header_len);
-  bp = buf + sizeof (struct ctf_header);
-  *size = sizeof (struct ctf_header);
-
-  if (fp->ctf_size < threshold)
-    {
-      hp->cth_flags &= ~CTF_F_COMPRESS;
-      memcpy (bp, fp->ctf_buf, fp->ctf_size);
-      *size += fp->ctf_size;
-    }
-  else
-    {
-      hp->cth_flags |= CTF_F_COMPRESS;
-      if ((rc = compress (bp, (uLongf *) &compress_len,
-			  fp->ctf_buf, fp->ctf_size)) != Z_OK)
-	{
-	  ctf_set_errno (fp, ECTF_COMPRESS);
-	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("zlib deflate err: %s"), zError (rc));
-	  free (buf);
-	  return NULL;
-	}
-      *size += compress_len;
-    }
-  return buf;
-}
-
-/* Write the uncompressed CTF data stream to the specified file descriptor.  */
-int
-ctf_write (ctf_dict_t *fp, int fd)
-{
-  const unsigned char *buf;
-  ssize_t resid;
-  ssize_t len;
-
-  if (ctf_serialize (fp) < 0)
-    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
-
-  resid = sizeof (ctf_header_t);
-  buf = (unsigned char *) fp->ctf_header;
-  while (resid != 0)
-    {
-      if ((len = write (fd, buf, resid)) <= 0)
-	{
-	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, errno, _("ctf_write: error writing header"));
-	  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, errno));
-	}
-      resid -= len;
-      buf += len;
-    }
-
-  resid = fp->ctf_size;
-  buf = fp->ctf_buf;
-  while (resid != 0)
-    {
-      if ((len = write (fd, buf, resid)) <= 0)
-	{
-	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, errno, _("ctf_write: error writing"));
-	  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, errno));
-	}
-      resid -= len;
-      buf += len;
-    }
-
-  return 0;
-}
diff --git a/libctf/ctf-serialize.c b/libctf/ctf-serialize.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0bd98c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libctf/ctf-serialize.c
@@ -0,0 +1,1332 @@
+/* CTF dict creation.
+   Copyright (C) 2019-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This file is part of libctf.
+
+   libctf is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+   the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+   Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later
+   version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+   See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not see
+   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <ctf-impl.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <zlib.h>
+
+#include <elf.h>
+#include "elf-bfd.h"
+
+/* Delete data symbols that have been assigned names from the variable section.
+   Must be called from within ctf_serialize, because that is the only place
+   you can safely delete variables without messing up ctf_rollback.  */
+
+static int
+symtypetab_delete_nonstatic_vars (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dict_t *symfp)
+{
+  ctf_dvdef_t *dvd, *nvd;
+  ctf_id_t type;
+
+  for (dvd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dvdefs); dvd != NULL; dvd = nvd)
+    {
+      nvd = ctf_list_next (dvd);
+
+      if (((type = (ctf_id_t) (uintptr_t)
+	    ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_objthash, dvd->dvd_name)) > 0)
+	  && ctf_dynhash_lookup (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, dvd->dvd_name) != NULL
+	  && type == dvd->dvd_type)
+	ctf_dvd_delete (fp, dvd);
+    }
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+/* Determine if a symbol is "skippable" and should never appear in the
+   symtypetab sections.  */
+
+int
+ctf_symtab_skippable (ctf_link_sym_t *sym)
+{
+  /* Never skip symbols whose name is not yet known.  */
+  if (sym->st_nameidx_set)
+    return 0;
+
+  return (sym->st_name == NULL || sym->st_name[0] == 0
+	  || sym->st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF
+	  || strcmp (sym->st_name, "_START_") == 0
+	  || strcmp (sym->st_name, "_END_") == 0
+	  || (sym->st_type == STT_OBJECT && sym->st_shndx == SHN_EXTABS
+	      && sym->st_value == 0));
+}
+
+/* Symtypetab emission flags.  */
+
+#define CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION 0x1
+#define CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD 0x2
+#define CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED 0x4
+
+/* Get the number of symbols in a symbol hash, the count of symbols, the maximum
+   seen, the eventual size, without any padding elements, of the func/data and
+   (if generated) index sections, and the size of accumulated padding elements.
+   The linker-reported set of symbols is found in SYMFP: it may be NULL if
+   symbol filtering is not desired, in which case CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED
+   will always be set in the flags.
+
+   Also figure out if any symbols need to be moved to the variable section, and
+   add them (if not already present).  */
+
+_libctf_nonnull_ ((1,3,4,5,6,7,8))
+static int
+symtypetab_density (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dict_t *symfp, ctf_dynhash_t *symhash,
+		    size_t *count, size_t *max, size_t *unpadsize,
+		    size_t *padsize, size_t *idxsize, int flags)
+{
+  ctf_next_t *i = NULL;
+  const void *name;
+  const void *ctf_sym;
+  ctf_dynhash_t *linker_known = NULL;
+  int err;
+  int beyond_max = 0;
+
+  *count = 0;
+  *max = 0;
+  *unpadsize = 0;
+  *idxsize = 0;
+  *padsize = 0;
+
+  if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
+    {
+      /* Make a dynhash citing only symbols reported by the linker of the
+	 appropriate type, then traverse all potential-symbols we know the types
+	 of, removing them from linker_known as we go.  Once this is done, the
+	 only symbols remaining in linker_known are symbols we don't know the
+	 types of: we must emit pads for those symbols that are below the
+	 maximum symbol we will emit (any beyond that are simply skipped).
+
+	 If there are none, this symtypetab will be empty: just report that.  */
+
+      if (!symfp->ctf_dynsyms)
+	return 0;
+
+      if ((linker_known = ctf_dynhash_create (ctf_hash_string, ctf_hash_eq_string,
+					      NULL, NULL)) == NULL)
+	return (ctf_set_errno (fp, ENOMEM));
+
+      while ((err = ctf_dynhash_cnext (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, &i,
+				       &name, &ctf_sym)) == 0)
+	{
+	  ctf_link_sym_t *sym = (ctf_link_sym_t *) ctf_sym;
+
+	  if (((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+	       && sym->st_type != STT_FUNC)
+	      || (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+		  && sym->st_type != STT_OBJECT))
+	    continue;
+
+	  if (ctf_symtab_skippable (sym))
+	    continue;
+
+	  /* This should only be true briefly before all the names are
+	     finalized, long before we get this far.  */
+	  if (!ctf_assert (fp, !sym->st_nameidx_set))
+	    return -1;				/* errno is set for us.  */
+
+	  if (ctf_dynhash_cinsert (linker_known, name, ctf_sym) < 0)
+	    {
+	      ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
+	      return (ctf_set_errno (fp, ENOMEM));
+	    }
+	}
+      if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
+	{
+	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, err, _("iterating over linker-known symbols during "
+				  "serialization"));
+	  ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
+	  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, err));
+	}
+    }
+
+  while ((err = ctf_dynhash_cnext (symhash, &i, &name, NULL)) == 0)
+    {
+      ctf_link_sym_t *sym;
+
+      if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
+	{
+	  /* Linker did not report symbol in symtab.  Remove it from the
+	     set of known data symbols and continue.  */
+	  if ((sym = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, name)) == NULL)
+	    {
+	      ctf_dynhash_remove (symhash, name);
+	      continue;
+	    }
+
+	  /* We don't remove skippable symbols from the symhash because we don't
+	     want them to be migrated into variables.  */
+	  if (ctf_symtab_skippable (sym))
+	    continue;
+
+	  if ((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+	      && sym->st_type != STT_FUNC)
+	    {
+	      ctf_err_warn (fp, 1, 0, _("symbol %s (%x) added to CTF as a "
+					"function but is of type %x.  "
+					"The symbol type lookup tables "
+					"are probably corrupted"),
+			    sym->st_name, sym->st_symidx, sym->st_type);
+	      ctf_dynhash_remove (symhash, name);
+	      continue;
+	    }
+	  else if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+		   && sym->st_type != STT_OBJECT)
+	    {
+	      ctf_err_warn (fp, 1, 0, _("symbol %s (%x) added to CTF as a "
+					"data object but is of type %x.  "
+					"The symbol type lookup tables "
+					"are probably corrupted"),
+			    sym->st_name, sym->st_symidx, sym->st_type);
+	      ctf_dynhash_remove (symhash, name);
+	      continue;
+	    }
+
+	  ctf_dynhash_remove (linker_known, name);
+	}
+      *unpadsize += sizeof (uint32_t);
+      (*count)++;
+
+      if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
+	{
+	  if (*max < sym->st_symidx)
+	    *max = sym->st_symidx;
+	}
+      else
+	(*max)++;
+    }
+  if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
+    {
+      ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, err, _("iterating over CTF symtypetab during "
+				  "serialization"));
+      ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
+      return (ctf_set_errno (fp, err));
+    }
+
+  if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
+    {
+      while ((err = ctf_dynhash_cnext (linker_known, &i, NULL, &ctf_sym)) == 0)
+	{
+	  ctf_link_sym_t *sym = (ctf_link_sym_t *) ctf_sym;
+
+	  if (sym->st_symidx > *max)
+	    beyond_max++;
+	}
+      if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
+	{
+	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, err, _("iterating over linker-known symbols "
+				      "during CTF serialization"));
+	  ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
+	  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, err));
+	}
+    }
+
+  *idxsize = *count * sizeof (uint32_t);
+  if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
+    *padsize = (ctf_dynhash_elements (linker_known) - beyond_max) * sizeof (uint32_t);
+
+  ctf_dynhash_destroy (linker_known);
+  return 0;
+}
+
+/* Emit an objt or func symtypetab into DP in a particular order defined by an
+   array of ctf_link_sym_t or symbol names passed in.  The index has NIDX
+   elements in it: unindexed output would terminate at symbol OUTMAX and is in
+   any case no larger than SIZE bytes.  Some index elements are expected to be
+   skipped: see symtypetab_density.  The linker-reported set of symbols (if any)
+   is found in SYMFP. */
+static int
+emit_symtypetab (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dict_t *symfp, uint32_t *dp,
+		 ctf_link_sym_t **idx, const char **nameidx, uint32_t nidx,
+		 uint32_t outmax, int size, int flags)
+{
+  uint32_t i;
+  uint32_t *dpp = dp;
+  ctf_dynhash_t *symhash;
+
+  ctf_dprintf ("Emitting table of size %i, outmax %u, %u symtypetab entries, "
+	       "flags %i\n", size, outmax, nidx, flags);
+
+  /* Empty table? Nothing to do.  */
+  if (size == 0)
+    return 0;
+
+  if (flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+    symhash = fp->ctf_funchash;
+  else
+    symhash = fp->ctf_objthash;
+
+  for (i = 0; i < nidx; i++)
+    {
+      const char *sym_name;
+      void *type;
+
+      /* If we have a linker-reported set of symbols, we may be given that set
+	 to work from, or a set of symbol names.  In both cases we want to look
+	 at the corresponding linker-reported symbol (if any).  */
+      if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
+	{
+	  ctf_link_sym_t *this_link_sym;
+
+	  if (idx)
+	    this_link_sym = idx[i];
+	  else
+	    this_link_sym = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, nameidx[i]);
+
+	  /* Unreported symbol number.  No pad, no nothing.  */
+	  if (!this_link_sym)
+	    continue;
+
+	  /* Symbol of the wrong type, or skippable?  This symbol is not in this
+	     table.  */
+	  if (((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+	       && this_link_sym->st_type != STT_FUNC)
+	      || (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+		  && this_link_sym->st_type != STT_OBJECT))
+	    continue;
+
+	  if (ctf_symtab_skippable (this_link_sym))
+	    continue;
+
+	  sym_name = this_link_sym->st_name;
+
+	  /* Linker reports symbol of a different type to the symbol we actually
+	     added?  Skip the symbol.  No pad, since the symbol doesn't actually
+	     belong in this table at all.  (Warned about in
+	     symtypetab_density.)  */
+	  if ((this_link_sym->st_type == STT_FUNC)
+	      && (ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_objthash, sym_name)))
+	    continue;
+
+	  if ((this_link_sym->st_type == STT_OBJECT)
+	      && (ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_funchash, sym_name)))
+	    continue;
+	}
+      else
+	sym_name = nameidx[i];
+
+      /* Symbol in index but no type set? Silently skip and (optionally)
+	 pad.  (In force-indexed mode, this is also where we track symbols of
+	 the wrong type for this round of insertion.)  */
+      if ((type = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symhash, sym_name)) == NULL)
+	{
+	  if (flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD)
+	    *dpp++ = 0;
+	  continue;
+	}
+
+      if (!ctf_assert (fp, (((char *) dpp) - (char *) dp) < size))
+	return -1;				/* errno is set for us.  */
+
+      *dpp++ = (ctf_id_t) (uintptr_t) type;
+
+      /* When emitting unindexed output, all later symbols are pads: stop
+	 early.  */
+      if ((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD) && idx[i]->st_symidx == outmax)
+	break;
+    }
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+/* Emit an objt or func symtypetab index into DP in a paticular order defined by
+   an array of symbol names passed in.  Stop at NIDX.  The linker-reported set
+   of symbols (if any) is found in SYMFP. */
+static int
+emit_symtypetab_index (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dict_t *symfp, uint32_t *dp,
+		       const char **idx, uint32_t nidx, int size, int flags)
+{
+  uint32_t i;
+  uint32_t *dpp = dp;
+  ctf_dynhash_t *symhash;
+
+  ctf_dprintf ("Emitting index of size %i, %u entries reported by linker, "
+	       "flags %i\n", size, nidx, flags);
+
+  /* Empty table? Nothing to do.  */
+  if (size == 0)
+    return 0;
+
+  if (flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+    symhash = fp->ctf_funchash;
+  else
+    symhash = fp->ctf_objthash;
+
+  /* Indexes should always be unpadded.  */
+  if (!ctf_assert (fp, !(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD)))
+    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
+
+  for (i = 0; i < nidx; i++)
+    {
+      const char *sym_name;
+      void *type;
+
+      if (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED))
+	{
+	  ctf_link_sym_t *this_link_sym;
+
+	  this_link_sym = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, idx[i]);
+
+	  /* This is an index: unreported symbols should never appear in it.  */
+	  if (!ctf_assert (fp, this_link_sym != NULL))
+	    return -1;				/* errno is set for us.  */
+
+	  /* Symbol of the wrong type, or skippable?  This symbol is not in this
+	     table.  */
+	  if (((flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+	       && this_link_sym->st_type != STT_FUNC)
+	      || (!(flags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION)
+		  && this_link_sym->st_type != STT_OBJECT))
+	    continue;
+
+	  if (ctf_symtab_skippable (this_link_sym))
+	    continue;
+
+	  sym_name = this_link_sym->st_name;
+
+	  /* Linker reports symbol of a different type to the symbol we actually
+	     added?  Skip the symbol.  */
+	  if ((this_link_sym->st_type == STT_FUNC)
+	      && (ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_objthash, sym_name)))
+	    continue;
+
+	  if ((this_link_sym->st_type == STT_OBJECT)
+	      && (ctf_dynhash_lookup (fp->ctf_funchash, sym_name)))
+	    continue;
+	}
+      else
+	sym_name = idx[i];
+
+      /* Symbol in index and reported by linker, but no type set? Silently skip
+	 and (optionally) pad.  (In force-indexed mode, this is also where we
+	 track symbols of the wrong type for this round of insertion.)  */
+      if ((type = ctf_dynhash_lookup (symhash, sym_name)) == NULL)
+	continue;
+
+      ctf_str_add_ref (fp, sym_name, dpp++);
+
+      if (!ctf_assert (fp, (((char *) dpp) - (char *) dp) <= size))
+	return -1;				/* errno is set for us.  */
+    }
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+static unsigned char *
+ctf_copy_smembers (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dtdef_t *dtd, unsigned char *t)
+{
+  ctf_dmdef_t *dmd = ctf_list_next (&dtd->dtd_u.dtu_members);
+  ctf_member_t ctm;
+
+  for (; dmd != NULL; dmd = ctf_list_next (dmd))
+    {
+      ctf_member_t *copied;
+
+      ctm.ctm_name = 0;
+      ctm.ctm_type = (uint32_t) dmd->dmd_type;
+      ctm.ctm_offset = (uint32_t) dmd->dmd_offset;
+
+      memcpy (t, &ctm, sizeof (ctm));
+      copied = (ctf_member_t *) t;
+      if (dmd->dmd_name)
+	ctf_str_add_ref (fp, dmd->dmd_name, &copied->ctm_name);
+
+      t += sizeof (ctm);
+    }
+
+  return t;
+}
+
+static unsigned char *
+ctf_copy_lmembers (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dtdef_t *dtd, unsigned char *t)
+{
+  ctf_dmdef_t *dmd = ctf_list_next (&dtd->dtd_u.dtu_members);
+  ctf_lmember_t ctlm;
+
+  for (; dmd != NULL; dmd = ctf_list_next (dmd))
+    {
+      ctf_lmember_t *copied;
+
+      ctlm.ctlm_name = 0;
+      ctlm.ctlm_type = (uint32_t) dmd->dmd_type;
+      ctlm.ctlm_offsethi = CTF_OFFSET_TO_LMEMHI (dmd->dmd_offset);
+      ctlm.ctlm_offsetlo = CTF_OFFSET_TO_LMEMLO (dmd->dmd_offset);
+
+      memcpy (t, &ctlm, sizeof (ctlm));
+      copied = (ctf_lmember_t *) t;
+      if (dmd->dmd_name)
+	ctf_str_add_ref (fp, dmd->dmd_name, &copied->ctlm_name);
+
+      t += sizeof (ctlm);
+    }
+
+  return t;
+}
+
+static unsigned char *
+ctf_copy_emembers (ctf_dict_t *fp, ctf_dtdef_t *dtd, unsigned char *t)
+{
+  ctf_dmdef_t *dmd = ctf_list_next (&dtd->dtd_u.dtu_members);
+  ctf_enum_t cte;
+
+  for (; dmd != NULL; dmd = ctf_list_next (dmd))
+    {
+      ctf_enum_t *copied;
+
+      cte.cte_value = dmd->dmd_value;
+      memcpy (t, &cte, sizeof (cte));
+      copied = (ctf_enum_t *) t;
+      ctf_str_add_ref (fp, dmd->dmd_name, &copied->cte_name);
+      t += sizeof (cte);
+    }
+
+  return t;
+}
+
+/* Sort a newly-constructed static variable array.  */
+
+typedef struct ctf_sort_var_arg_cb
+{
+  ctf_dict_t *fp;
+  ctf_strs_t *strtab;
+} ctf_sort_var_arg_cb_t;
+
+static int
+ctf_sort_var (const void *one_, const void *two_, void *arg_)
+{
+  const ctf_varent_t *one = one_;
+  const ctf_varent_t *two = two_;
+  ctf_sort_var_arg_cb_t *arg = arg_;
+
+  return (strcmp (ctf_strraw_explicit (arg->fp, one->ctv_name, arg->strtab),
+		  ctf_strraw_explicit (arg->fp, two->ctv_name, arg->strtab)));
+}
+
+/* If the specified CTF dict is writable and has been modified, reload this dict
+   with the updated type definitions, ready for serialization.  In order to make
+   this code and the rest of libctf as simple as possible, we perform updates by
+   taking the dynamic type definitions and creating an in-memory CTF dict
+   containing the definitions, and then call ctf_simple_open_internal() on it.
+   We perform one extra trick here for the benefit of callers and to keep our
+   code simple: ctf_simple_open_internal() will return a new ctf_dict_t, but we
+   want to keep the fp constant for the caller, so after
+   ctf_simple_open_internal() returns, we use memcpy to swap the interior of the
+   old and new ctf_dict_t's, and then free the old.  */
+int
+ctf_serialize (ctf_dict_t *fp)
+{
+  ctf_dict_t ofp, *nfp;
+  ctf_header_t hdr, *hdrp;
+  ctf_dtdef_t *dtd;
+  ctf_dvdef_t *dvd;
+  ctf_varent_t *dvarents;
+  ctf_strs_writable_t strtab;
+
+  unsigned char *t;
+  unsigned long i;
+  size_t buf_size, type_size, objt_size, func_size;
+  size_t objt_unpadsize, func_unpadsize, objt_padsize, func_padsize;
+  size_t funcidx_size, objtidx_size;
+  size_t nvars, nfuncs, nobjts, maxobjt, maxfunc;
+  size_t nsymtypes = 0;
+  const char **sym_name_order = NULL;
+  unsigned char *buf = NULL, *newbuf;
+  int err;
+
+  /* Symtab filtering. If filter_syms is true, symfp is set: otherwise,
+     CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED is set in symflags.  */
+  int filter_syms = 0;
+  int sort_syms = 1;
+  int symflags = 0;
+  ctf_dict_t *symfp = NULL;
+
+  if (!(fp->ctf_flags & LCTF_RDWR))
+    return (ctf_set_errno (fp, ECTF_RDONLY));
+
+  /* Update required?  */
+  if (!(fp->ctf_flags & LCTF_DIRTY))
+    return 0;
+
+  /* If doing a writeout as part of linking, and the link flags request it,
+     filter out reported symbols from the variable section, and filter out all
+     other symbols from the symtypetab sections.  (If we are not linking, the
+     symbols are sorted; if we are linking, don't bother sorting if we are not
+     filtering out reported symbols: this is almost certaily an ld -r and only
+     the linker is likely to consume these symtypetabs again.  The linker
+     doesn't care what order the symtypetab entries is in, since it only
+     iterates over symbols and does not use the ctf_lookup_by_symbol* API.)  */
+
+  if (fp->ctf_flags & LCTF_LINKING)
+    {
+      filter_syms = !(fp->ctf_link_flags & CTF_LINK_NO_FILTER_REPORTED_SYMS);
+      if (!filter_syms)
+	sort_syms = 0;
+    }
+
+  /* Fill in an initial CTF header.  We will leave the label, object,
+     and function sections empty and only output a header, type section,
+     and string table.  The type section begins at a 4-byte aligned
+     boundary past the CTF header itself (at relative offset zero).  The flag
+     indicating a new-style function info section (an array of CTF_K_FUNCTION
+     type IDs in the types section) is flipped on.  */
+
+  memset (&hdr, 0, sizeof (hdr));
+  hdr.cth_magic = CTF_MAGIC;
+  hdr.cth_version = CTF_VERSION;
+
+  /* This is a new-format func info section, and the symtab and strtab come out
+     of the dynsym and dynstr these days.  */
+  hdr.cth_flags = (CTF_F_NEWFUNCINFO | CTF_F_DYNSTR);
+
+  /* Iterate through the dynamic type definition list and compute the
+     size of the CTF type section we will need to generate.  */
+
+  for (type_size = 0, dtd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dtdefs);
+       dtd != NULL; dtd = ctf_list_next (dtd))
+    {
+      uint32_t kind = LCTF_INFO_KIND (fp, dtd->dtd_data.ctt_info);
+      uint32_t vlen = LCTF_INFO_VLEN (fp, dtd->dtd_data.ctt_info);
+
+      if (dtd->dtd_data.ctt_size != CTF_LSIZE_SENT)
+	type_size += sizeof (ctf_stype_t);
+      else
+	type_size += sizeof (ctf_type_t);
+
+      switch (kind)
+	{
+	case CTF_K_INTEGER:
+	case CTF_K_FLOAT:
+	  type_size += sizeof (uint32_t);
+	  break;
+	case CTF_K_ARRAY:
+	  type_size += sizeof (ctf_array_t);
+	  break;
+	case CTF_K_SLICE:
+	  type_size += sizeof (ctf_slice_t);
+	  break;
+	case CTF_K_FUNCTION:
+	  type_size += sizeof (uint32_t) * (vlen + (vlen & 1));
+	  break;
+	case CTF_K_STRUCT:
+	case CTF_K_UNION:
+	  if (dtd->dtd_data.ctt_size < CTF_LSTRUCT_THRESH)
+	    type_size += sizeof (ctf_member_t) * vlen;
+	  else
+	    type_size += sizeof (ctf_lmember_t) * vlen;
+	  break;
+	case CTF_K_ENUM:
+	  type_size += sizeof (ctf_enum_t) * vlen;
+	  break;
+	}
+    }
+
+  /* Find the dict to which the linker has reported symbols, if any.  */
+
+  if (filter_syms)
+    {
+      if (!fp->ctf_dynsyms && fp->ctf_parent && fp->ctf_parent->ctf_dynsyms)
+	symfp = fp->ctf_parent;
+      else
+	symfp = fp;
+    }
+
+  /* If not filtering, keep all potential symbols in an unsorted, indexed
+     dict.  */
+  if (!filter_syms)
+    symflags = CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED;
+  else
+    hdr.cth_flags |= CTF_F_IDXSORTED;
+
+  if (!ctf_assert (fp, (filter_syms && symfp)
+		   || (!filter_syms && !symfp
+		       && ((symflags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED) != 0))))
+    return -1;
+
+  /* Work out the sizes of the object and function sections, and work out the
+     number of pad (unassigned) symbols in each, and the overall size of the
+     sections.  */
+
+  if (symtypetab_density (fp, symfp, fp->ctf_objthash, &nobjts, &maxobjt,
+			  &objt_unpadsize, &objt_padsize, &objtidx_size,
+			  symflags) < 0)
+    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
+
+  ctf_dprintf ("Object symtypetab: %i objects, max %i, unpadded size %i, "
+	       "%i bytes of pads, index size %i\n", (int) nobjts, (int) maxobjt,
+	       (int) objt_unpadsize, (int) objt_padsize, (int) objtidx_size);
+
+  if (symtypetab_density (fp, symfp, fp->ctf_funchash, &nfuncs, &maxfunc,
+			  &func_unpadsize, &func_padsize, &funcidx_size,
+			  symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION) < 0)
+    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
+
+  ctf_dprintf ("Function symtypetab: %i functions, max %i, unpadded size %i, "
+	       "%i bytes of pads, index size %i\n", (int) nfuncs, (int) maxfunc,
+	       (int) func_unpadsize, (int) func_padsize, (int) funcidx_size);
+
+  /* If we are filtering symbols out, those symbols that the linker has not
+     reported have now been removed from the ctf_objthash and ctf_funchash.
+     Delete entries from the variable section that duplicate newly-added data
+     symbols.  There's no need to migrate new ones in, because the compiler
+     always emits both a variable and a data symbol simultaneously, and
+     filtering only happens at final link time.  */
+
+  if (filter_syms && symfp->ctf_dynsyms &&
+      symtypetab_delete_nonstatic_vars (fp, symfp) < 0)
+    return -1;
+
+  /* It is worth indexing each section if it would save space to do so, due to
+     reducing the number of pads sufficiently.  A pad is the same size as a
+     single index entry: but index sections compress relatively poorly compared
+     to constant pads, so it takes a lot of contiguous padding to equal one
+     index section entry.  It would be nice to be able to *verify* whether we
+     would save space after compression rather than guessing, but this seems
+     difficult, since it would require complete reserialization.  Regardless, if
+     the linker has not reported any symbols (e.g. if this is not a final link
+     but just an ld -r), we must emit things in indexed fashion just as the
+     compiler does.  */
+
+  objt_size = objt_unpadsize;
+  if (!(symflags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED)
+      && ((objt_padsize + objt_unpadsize) * CTF_INDEX_PAD_THRESHOLD
+	  > objt_padsize))
+    {
+      objt_size += objt_padsize;
+      objtidx_size = 0;
+    }
+
+  func_size = func_unpadsize;
+  if (!(symflags & CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED)
+      && ((func_padsize + func_unpadsize) * CTF_INDEX_PAD_THRESHOLD
+	  > func_padsize))
+    {
+      func_size += func_padsize;
+      funcidx_size = 0;
+    }
+
+  /* Computing the number of entries in the CTF variable section is much
+     simpler.  */
+
+  for (nvars = 0, dvd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dvdefs);
+       dvd != NULL; dvd = ctf_list_next (dvd), nvars++);
+
+  /* Compute the size of the CTF buffer we need, sans only the string table,
+     then allocate a new buffer and memcpy the finished header to the start of
+     the buffer.  (We will adjust this later with strtab length info.)  */
+
+  hdr.cth_lbloff = hdr.cth_objtoff = 0;
+  hdr.cth_funcoff = hdr.cth_objtoff + objt_size;
+  hdr.cth_objtidxoff = hdr.cth_funcoff + func_size;
+  hdr.cth_funcidxoff = hdr.cth_objtidxoff + objtidx_size;
+  hdr.cth_varoff = hdr.cth_funcidxoff + funcidx_size;
+  hdr.cth_typeoff = hdr.cth_varoff + (nvars * sizeof (ctf_varent_t));
+  hdr.cth_stroff = hdr.cth_typeoff + type_size;
+  hdr.cth_strlen = 0;
+
+  buf_size = sizeof (ctf_header_t) + hdr.cth_stroff + hdr.cth_strlen;
+
+  if ((buf = malloc (buf_size)) == NULL)
+    return (ctf_set_errno (fp, EAGAIN));
+
+  memcpy (buf, &hdr, sizeof (ctf_header_t));
+  t = (unsigned char *) buf + sizeof (ctf_header_t) + hdr.cth_objtoff;
+
+  hdrp = (ctf_header_t *) buf;
+  if ((fp->ctf_flags & LCTF_CHILD) && (fp->ctf_parname != NULL))
+    ctf_str_add_ref (fp, fp->ctf_parname, &hdrp->cth_parname);
+  if (fp->ctf_cuname != NULL)
+    ctf_str_add_ref (fp, fp->ctf_cuname, &hdrp->cth_cuname);
+
+  /* Sort the linker's symbols into name order if need be.  */
+
+  if ((objtidx_size != 0) || (funcidx_size != 0))
+    {
+      ctf_next_t *i = NULL;
+      void *symname;
+      const char **walk;
+
+      if (filter_syms)
+	{
+	  if (symfp->ctf_dynsyms)
+	    nsymtypes = ctf_dynhash_elements (symfp->ctf_dynsyms);
+	  else
+	    nsymtypes = 0;
+	}
+      else
+	nsymtypes = ctf_dynhash_elements (fp->ctf_objthash)
+	  + ctf_dynhash_elements (fp->ctf_funchash);
+
+      if ((sym_name_order = calloc (nsymtypes, sizeof (const char *))) == NULL)
+	goto oom;
+
+      walk = sym_name_order;
+
+      if (filter_syms)
+	{
+	  if (symfp->ctf_dynsyms)
+	    {
+	      while ((err = ctf_dynhash_next_sorted (symfp->ctf_dynsyms, &i,
+						     &symname, NULL,
+						     ctf_dynhash_sort_by_name,
+						     NULL)) == 0)
+		*walk++ = (const char *) symname;
+	      if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
+		goto symerr;
+	    }
+	}
+      else
+	{
+	  ctf_hash_sort_f sort_fun = NULL;
+
+	  /* Since we partition the set of symbols back into objt and func,
+	     we can sort the two independently without harm.  */
+	  if (sort_syms)
+	    sort_fun = ctf_dynhash_sort_by_name;
+
+	  while ((err = ctf_dynhash_next_sorted (fp->ctf_objthash, &i, &symname,
+						 NULL, sort_fun, NULL)) == 0)
+	    *walk++ = (const char *) symname;
+	  if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
+	    goto symerr;
+
+	  while ((err = ctf_dynhash_next_sorted (fp->ctf_funchash, &i, &symname,
+						 NULL, sort_fun, NULL)) == 0)
+	    *walk++ = (const char *) symname;
+	  if (err != ECTF_NEXT_END)
+	    goto symerr;
+	}
+    }
+
+  /* Emit the object and function sections, and if necessary their indexes.
+     Emission is done in symtab order if there is no index, and in index
+     (name) order otherwise.  */
+
+  if ((objtidx_size == 0) && symfp && symfp->ctf_dynsymidx)
+    {
+      ctf_dprintf ("Emitting unindexed objt symtypetab\n");
+      if (emit_symtypetab (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, symfp->ctf_dynsymidx,
+			   NULL, symfp->ctf_dynsymmax + 1, maxobjt, objt_size,
+			   symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD) < 0)
+	goto err;				/* errno is set for us.  */
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      ctf_dprintf ("Emitting indexed objt symtypetab\n");
+      if (emit_symtypetab (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, NULL, sym_name_order,
+			   nsymtypes, maxobjt, objt_size, symflags) < 0)
+	goto err;				/* errno is set for us.  */
+    }
+
+  t += objt_size;
+
+  if ((funcidx_size == 0) && symfp && symfp->ctf_dynsymidx)
+    {
+      ctf_dprintf ("Emitting unindexed func symtypetab\n");
+      if (emit_symtypetab (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, symfp->ctf_dynsymidx,
+			   NULL, symfp->ctf_dynsymmax + 1, maxfunc,
+			   func_size, symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION
+			   | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD) < 0)
+	goto err;				/* errno is set for us.  */
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      ctf_dprintf ("Emitting indexed func symtypetab\n");
+      if (emit_symtypetab (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, NULL, sym_name_order,
+			   nsymtypes, maxfunc, func_size,
+			   symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION) < 0)
+	goto err;				/* errno is set for us.  */
+    }
+
+  t += func_size;
+
+  if (objtidx_size > 0)
+    if (emit_symtypetab_index (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, sym_name_order,
+			       nsymtypes, objtidx_size, symflags) < 0)
+      goto err;
+
+  t += objtidx_size;
+
+  if (funcidx_size > 0)
+    if (emit_symtypetab_index (fp, symfp, (uint32_t *) t, sym_name_order,
+			       nsymtypes, funcidx_size,
+			       symflags | CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION) < 0)
+      goto err;
+
+  t += funcidx_size;
+  free (sym_name_order);
+  sym_name_order = NULL;
+
+  /* Work over the variable list, translating everything into ctf_varent_t's and
+     prepping the string table.  */
+
+  dvarents = (ctf_varent_t *) t;
+  for (i = 0, dvd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dvdefs); dvd != NULL;
+       dvd = ctf_list_next (dvd), i++)
+    {
+      ctf_varent_t *var = &dvarents[i];
+
+      ctf_str_add_ref (fp, dvd->dvd_name, &var->ctv_name);
+      var->ctv_type = (uint32_t) dvd->dvd_type;
+    }
+  assert (i == nvars);
+
+  t += sizeof (ctf_varent_t) * nvars;
+
+  assert (t == (unsigned char *) buf + sizeof (ctf_header_t) + hdr.cth_typeoff);
+
+  /* We now take a final lap through the dynamic type definition list and copy
+     the appropriate type records to the output buffer, noting down the
+     strings as we go.  */
+
+  for (dtd = ctf_list_next (&fp->ctf_dtdefs);
+       dtd != NULL; dtd = ctf_list_next (dtd))
+    {
+      uint32_t kind = LCTF_INFO_KIND (fp, dtd->dtd_data.ctt_info);
+      uint32_t vlen = LCTF_INFO_VLEN (fp, dtd->dtd_data.ctt_info);
+
+      ctf_array_t cta;
+      uint32_t encoding;
+      size_t len;
+      ctf_stype_t *copied;
+      const char *name;
+
+      if (dtd->dtd_data.ctt_size != CTF_LSIZE_SENT)
+	len = sizeof (ctf_stype_t);
+      else
+	len = sizeof (ctf_type_t);
+
+      memcpy (t, &dtd->dtd_data, len);
+      copied = (ctf_stype_t *) t;  /* name is at the start: constant offset.  */
+      if (copied->ctt_name
+	  && (name = ctf_strraw (fp, copied->ctt_name)) != NULL)
+	ctf_str_add_ref (fp, name, &copied->ctt_name);
+      t += len;
+
+      switch (kind)
+	{
+	case CTF_K_INTEGER:
+	case CTF_K_FLOAT:
+	  if (kind == CTF_K_INTEGER)
+	    {
+	      encoding = CTF_INT_DATA (dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_format,
+				       dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_offset,
+				       dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_bits);
+	    }
+	  else
+	    {
+	      encoding = CTF_FP_DATA (dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_format,
+				      dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_offset,
+				      dtd->dtd_u.dtu_enc.cte_bits);
+	    }
+	  memcpy (t, &encoding, sizeof (encoding));
+	  t += sizeof (encoding);
+	  break;
+
+	case CTF_K_SLICE:
+	  memcpy (t, &dtd->dtd_u.dtu_slice, sizeof (struct ctf_slice));
+	  t += sizeof (struct ctf_slice);
+	  break;
+
+	case CTF_K_ARRAY:
+	  cta.cta_contents = (uint32_t) dtd->dtd_u.dtu_arr.ctr_contents;
+	  cta.cta_index = (uint32_t) dtd->dtd_u.dtu_arr.ctr_index;
+	  cta.cta_nelems = dtd->dtd_u.dtu_arr.ctr_nelems;
+	  memcpy (t, &cta, sizeof (cta));
+	  t += sizeof (cta);
+	  break;
+
+	case CTF_K_FUNCTION:
+	  {
+	    uint32_t *argv = (uint32_t *) (uintptr_t) t;
+	    uint32_t argc;
+
+	    for (argc = 0; argc < vlen; argc++)
+	      *argv++ = dtd->dtd_u.dtu_argv[argc];
+
+	    if (vlen & 1)
+	      *argv++ = 0;	/* Pad to 4-byte boundary.  */
+
+	    t = (unsigned char *) argv;
+	    break;
+	  }
+
+	case CTF_K_STRUCT:
+	case CTF_K_UNION:
+	  if (dtd->dtd_data.ctt_size < CTF_LSTRUCT_THRESH)
+	    t = ctf_copy_smembers (fp, dtd, t);
+	  else
+	    t = ctf_copy_lmembers (fp, dtd, t);
+	  break;
+
+	case CTF_K_ENUM:
+	  t = ctf_copy_emembers (fp, dtd, t);
+	  break;
+	}
+    }
+  assert (t == (unsigned char *) buf + sizeof (ctf_header_t) + hdr.cth_stroff);
+
+  /* Construct the final string table and fill out all the string refs with the
+     final offsets.  Then purge the refs list, because we're about to move this
+     strtab onto the end of the buf, invalidating all the offsets.  */
+  strtab = ctf_str_write_strtab (fp);
+  ctf_str_purge_refs (fp);
+
+  if (strtab.cts_strs == NULL)
+    goto oom;
+
+  /* Now the string table is constructed, we can sort the buffer of
+     ctf_varent_t's.  */
+  ctf_sort_var_arg_cb_t sort_var_arg = { fp, (ctf_strs_t *) &strtab };
+  ctf_qsort_r (dvarents, nvars, sizeof (ctf_varent_t), ctf_sort_var,
+	       &sort_var_arg);
+
+  if ((newbuf = ctf_realloc (fp, buf, buf_size + strtab.cts_len)) == NULL)
+    {
+      free (strtab.cts_strs);
+      goto oom;
+    }
+  buf = newbuf;
+  memcpy (buf + buf_size, strtab.cts_strs, strtab.cts_len);
+  hdrp = (ctf_header_t *) buf;
+  hdrp->cth_strlen = strtab.cts_len;
+  buf_size += hdrp->cth_strlen;
+  free (strtab.cts_strs);
+
+  /* Finally, we are ready to ctf_simple_open() the new dict.  If this is
+     successful, we then switch nfp and fp and free the old dict.  */
+
+  if ((nfp = ctf_simple_open_internal ((char *) buf, buf_size, NULL, 0,
+				       0, NULL, 0, fp->ctf_syn_ext_strtab,
+				       1, &err)) == NULL)
+    {
+      free (buf);
+      return (ctf_set_errno (fp, err));
+    }
+
+  (void) ctf_setmodel (nfp, ctf_getmodel (fp));
+
+  nfp->ctf_parent = fp->ctf_parent;
+  nfp->ctf_parent_unreffed = fp->ctf_parent_unreffed;
+  nfp->ctf_refcnt = fp->ctf_refcnt;
+  nfp->ctf_flags |= fp->ctf_flags & ~LCTF_DIRTY;
+  if (nfp->ctf_dynbase == NULL)
+    nfp->ctf_dynbase = buf;		/* Make sure buf is freed on close.  */
+  nfp->ctf_dthash = fp->ctf_dthash;
+  nfp->ctf_dtdefs = fp->ctf_dtdefs;
+  nfp->ctf_dvhash = fp->ctf_dvhash;
+  nfp->ctf_dvdefs = fp->ctf_dvdefs;
+  nfp->ctf_dtoldid = fp->ctf_dtoldid;
+  nfp->ctf_add_processing = fp->ctf_add_processing;
+  nfp->ctf_snapshots = fp->ctf_snapshots + 1;
+  nfp->ctf_specific = fp->ctf_specific;
+  nfp->ctf_nfuncidx = fp->ctf_nfuncidx;
+  nfp->ctf_nobjtidx = fp->ctf_nobjtidx;
+  nfp->ctf_objthash = fp->ctf_objthash;
+  nfp->ctf_funchash = fp->ctf_funchash;
+  nfp->ctf_dynsyms = fp->ctf_dynsyms;
+  nfp->ctf_ptrtab = fp->ctf_ptrtab;
+  nfp->ctf_pptrtab = fp->ctf_pptrtab;
+  nfp->ctf_dynsymidx = fp->ctf_dynsymidx;
+  nfp->ctf_dynsymmax = fp->ctf_dynsymmax;
+  nfp->ctf_ptrtab_len = fp->ctf_ptrtab_len;
+  nfp->ctf_pptrtab_len = fp->ctf_pptrtab_len;
+  nfp->ctf_link_inputs = fp->ctf_link_inputs;
+  nfp->ctf_link_outputs = fp->ctf_link_outputs;
+  nfp->ctf_errs_warnings = fp->ctf_errs_warnings;
+  nfp->ctf_funcidx_names = fp->ctf_funcidx_names;
+  nfp->ctf_objtidx_names = fp->ctf_objtidx_names;
+  nfp->ctf_funcidx_sxlate = fp->ctf_funcidx_sxlate;
+  nfp->ctf_objtidx_sxlate = fp->ctf_objtidx_sxlate;
+  nfp->ctf_str_prov_offset = fp->ctf_str_prov_offset;
+  nfp->ctf_syn_ext_strtab = fp->ctf_syn_ext_strtab;
+  nfp->ctf_pptrtab_typemax = fp->ctf_pptrtab_typemax;
+  nfp->ctf_in_flight_dynsyms = fp->ctf_in_flight_dynsyms;
+  nfp->ctf_link_in_cu_mapping = fp->ctf_link_in_cu_mapping;
+  nfp->ctf_link_out_cu_mapping = fp->ctf_link_out_cu_mapping;
+  nfp->ctf_link_type_mapping = fp->ctf_link_type_mapping;
+  nfp->ctf_link_memb_name_changer = fp->ctf_link_memb_name_changer;
+  nfp->ctf_link_memb_name_changer_arg = fp->ctf_link_memb_name_changer_arg;
+  nfp->ctf_link_variable_filter = fp->ctf_link_variable_filter;
+  nfp->ctf_link_variable_filter_arg = fp->ctf_link_variable_filter_arg;
+  nfp->ctf_symsect_little_endian = fp->ctf_symsect_little_endian;
+  nfp->ctf_link_flags = fp->ctf_link_flags;
+  nfp->ctf_dedup_atoms = fp->ctf_dedup_atoms;
+  nfp->ctf_dedup_atoms_alloc = fp->ctf_dedup_atoms_alloc;
+  memcpy (&nfp->ctf_dedup, &fp->ctf_dedup, sizeof (fp->ctf_dedup));
+
+  nfp->ctf_snapshot_lu = fp->ctf_snapshots;
+
+  memcpy (&nfp->ctf_lookups, fp->ctf_lookups, sizeof (fp->ctf_lookups));
+  nfp->ctf_structs = fp->ctf_structs;
+  nfp->ctf_unions = fp->ctf_unions;
+  nfp->ctf_enums = fp->ctf_enums;
+  nfp->ctf_names = fp->ctf_names;
+
+  fp->ctf_dthash = NULL;
+  ctf_str_free_atoms (nfp);
+  nfp->ctf_str_atoms = fp->ctf_str_atoms;
+  nfp->ctf_prov_strtab = fp->ctf_prov_strtab;
+  fp->ctf_str_atoms = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_prov_strtab = NULL;
+  memset (&fp->ctf_dtdefs, 0, sizeof (ctf_list_t));
+  memset (&fp->ctf_errs_warnings, 0, sizeof (ctf_list_t));
+  fp->ctf_add_processing = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_ptrtab = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_pptrtab = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_funcidx_names = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_objtidx_names = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_funcidx_sxlate = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_objtidx_sxlate = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_objthash = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_funchash = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_dynsyms = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_dynsymidx = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_link_inputs = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_link_outputs = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_syn_ext_strtab = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_link_in_cu_mapping = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_link_out_cu_mapping = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_link_type_mapping = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_dedup_atoms = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_dedup_atoms_alloc = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_parent_unreffed = 1;
+
+  fp->ctf_dvhash = NULL;
+  memset (&fp->ctf_dvdefs, 0, sizeof (ctf_list_t));
+  memset (fp->ctf_lookups, 0, sizeof (fp->ctf_lookups));
+  memset (&fp->ctf_in_flight_dynsyms, 0, sizeof (fp->ctf_in_flight_dynsyms));
+  memset (&fp->ctf_dedup, 0, sizeof (fp->ctf_dedup));
+  fp->ctf_structs.ctn_writable = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_unions.ctn_writable = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_enums.ctn_writable = NULL;
+  fp->ctf_names.ctn_writable = NULL;
+
+  memcpy (&ofp, fp, sizeof (ctf_dict_t));
+  memcpy (fp, nfp, sizeof (ctf_dict_t));
+  memcpy (nfp, &ofp, sizeof (ctf_dict_t));
+
+  nfp->ctf_refcnt = 1;				/* Force nfp to be freed.  */
+  ctf_dict_close (nfp);
+
+  return 0;
+
+symerr:
+  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, err, _("error serializing symtypetabs"));
+  goto err;
+oom:
+  free (buf);
+  free (sym_name_order);
+  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, EAGAIN));
+err:
+  free (buf);
+  free (sym_name_order);
+  return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
+}
+
+
+/* Write the compressed CTF data stream to the specified gzFile descriptor.  */
+int
+ctf_gzwrite (ctf_dict_t *fp, gzFile fd)
+{
+  const unsigned char *buf;
+  ssize_t resid;
+  ssize_t len;
+
+  resid = sizeof (ctf_header_t);
+  buf = (unsigned char *) fp->ctf_header;
+  while (resid != 0)
+    {
+      if ((len = gzwrite (fd, buf, resid)) <= 0)
+	return (ctf_set_errno (fp, errno));
+      resid -= len;
+      buf += len;
+    }
+
+  resid = fp->ctf_size;
+  buf = fp->ctf_buf;
+  while (resid != 0)
+    {
+      if ((len = gzwrite (fd, buf, resid)) <= 0)
+	return (ctf_set_errno (fp, errno));
+      resid -= len;
+      buf += len;
+    }
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+/* Compress the specified CTF data stream and write it to the specified file
+   descriptor.  */
+int
+ctf_compress_write (ctf_dict_t *fp, int fd)
+{
+  unsigned char *buf;
+  unsigned char *bp;
+  ctf_header_t h;
+  ctf_header_t *hp = &h;
+  ssize_t header_len = sizeof (ctf_header_t);
+  ssize_t compress_len;
+  ssize_t len;
+  int rc;
+  int err = 0;
+
+  if (ctf_serialize (fp) < 0)
+    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
+
+  memcpy (hp, fp->ctf_header, header_len);
+  hp->cth_flags |= CTF_F_COMPRESS;
+  compress_len = compressBound (fp->ctf_size);
+
+  if ((buf = malloc (compress_len)) == NULL)
+    {
+      ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("ctf_compress_write: cannot allocate %li bytes"),
+		    (unsigned long) compress_len);
+      return (ctf_set_errno (fp, ECTF_ZALLOC));
+    }
+
+  if ((rc = compress (buf, (uLongf *) &compress_len,
+		      fp->ctf_buf, fp->ctf_size)) != Z_OK)
+    {
+      err = ctf_set_errno (fp, ECTF_COMPRESS);
+      ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("zlib deflate err: %s"), zError (rc));
+      goto ret;
+    }
+
+  while (header_len > 0)
+    {
+      if ((len = write (fd, hp, header_len)) < 0)
+	{
+	  err = ctf_set_errno (fp, errno);
+	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("ctf_compress_write: error writing header"));
+	  goto ret;
+	}
+      header_len -= len;
+      hp += len;
+    }
+
+  bp = buf;
+  while (compress_len > 0)
+    {
+      if ((len = write (fd, bp, compress_len)) < 0)
+	{
+	  err = ctf_set_errno (fp, errno);
+	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("ctf_compress_write: error writing"));
+	  goto ret;
+	}
+      compress_len -= len;
+      bp += len;
+    }
+
+ret:
+  free (buf);
+  return err;
+}
+
+/* Optionally compress the specified CTF data stream and return it as a new
+   dynamically-allocated string.  */
+unsigned char *
+ctf_write_mem (ctf_dict_t *fp, size_t *size, size_t threshold)
+{
+  unsigned char *buf;
+  unsigned char *bp;
+  ctf_header_t *hp;
+  ssize_t header_len = sizeof (ctf_header_t);
+  ssize_t compress_len;
+  int rc;
+
+  if (ctf_serialize (fp) < 0)
+    return NULL;				/* errno is set for us.  */
+
+  compress_len = compressBound (fp->ctf_size);
+  if (fp->ctf_size < threshold)
+    compress_len = fp->ctf_size;
+  if ((buf = malloc (compress_len
+		     + sizeof (struct ctf_header))) == NULL)
+    {
+      ctf_set_errno (fp, ENOMEM);
+      ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("ctf_write_mem: cannot allocate %li bytes"),
+		    (unsigned long) (compress_len + sizeof (struct ctf_header)));
+      return NULL;
+    }
+
+  hp = (ctf_header_t *) buf;
+  memcpy (hp, fp->ctf_header, header_len);
+  bp = buf + sizeof (struct ctf_header);
+  *size = sizeof (struct ctf_header);
+
+  if (fp->ctf_size < threshold)
+    {
+      hp->cth_flags &= ~CTF_F_COMPRESS;
+      memcpy (bp, fp->ctf_buf, fp->ctf_size);
+      *size += fp->ctf_size;
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      hp->cth_flags |= CTF_F_COMPRESS;
+      if ((rc = compress (bp, (uLongf *) &compress_len,
+			  fp->ctf_buf, fp->ctf_size)) != Z_OK)
+	{
+	  ctf_set_errno (fp, ECTF_COMPRESS);
+	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, 0, _("zlib deflate err: %s"), zError (rc));
+	  free (buf);
+	  return NULL;
+	}
+      *size += compress_len;
+    }
+  return buf;
+}
+
+/* Write the uncompressed CTF data stream to the specified file descriptor.  */
+int
+ctf_write (ctf_dict_t *fp, int fd)
+{
+  const unsigned char *buf;
+  ssize_t resid;
+  ssize_t len;
+
+  if (ctf_serialize (fp) < 0)
+    return -1;					/* errno is set for us.  */
+
+  resid = sizeof (ctf_header_t);
+  buf = (unsigned char *) fp->ctf_header;
+  while (resid != 0)
+    {
+      if ((len = write (fd, buf, resid)) <= 0)
+	{
+	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, errno, _("ctf_write: error writing header"));
+	  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, errno));
+	}
+      resid -= len;
+      buf += len;
+    }
+
+  resid = fp->ctf_size;
+  buf = fp->ctf_buf;
+  while (resid != 0)
+    {
+      if ((len = write (fd, buf, resid)) <= 0)
+	{
+	  ctf_err_warn (fp, 0, errno, _("ctf_write: error writing"));
+	  return (ctf_set_errno (fp, errno));
+	}
+      resid -= len;
+      buf += len;
+    }
+
+  return 0;
+}