--- binutils-with-gold-2.45.50.orig/binutils/readelf.c	2025-12-08 10:51:19.287135564 +0000
+++ binutils-with-gold-2.45.50-8e992ccb1e4/binutils/readelf.c	2025-12-08 10:59:34.414789154 +0000
@@ -14667,6 +14667,18 @@ print_symbol_size (uint64_t vma, int bas
     }
 }
 
+/* The AArch64, ARM and RISC-V architectures define mapping
+   symbols (eg $d, $x, $t) which sometime should be ignored.  */
+
+static bool
+is_mapping_symbol (const char * name)
+{
+  return name[0] == '$'
+    && name [1] != 0
+    /* FIXME: Check that name[1] is lower case ASCII ?  */
+    && name [2] == 0;
+}
+
 /* Print information on a single symbol.  */
 
 static void
@@ -14803,7 +14815,9 @@ print_symbol (Filedata *           filed
 
   /* Local symbols whose value is larger than their section's size are suspicious
      especially if that section is mergeable - and hence might change offsets of
-     the contents inside the section.  */
+     the contents inside the section.
+     Note - for some reason we can get mapping symbols that do not relate to their
+     section's contents - so we ignore those type of symbol as well.  */
   if (ELF_ST_BIND (psym->st_info) == STB_LOCAL
       && ! is_special
       && is_valid
@@ -14811,7 +14825,8 @@ print_symbol (Filedata *           filed
       && filedata->section_headers != NULL
       /* FIXME: Should we warn for non-mergeable sections ? */
       && (filedata->section_headers[psym->st_shndx].sh_flags & SHF_MERGE)
-      && psym->st_value > filedata->section_headers[psym->st_shndx].sh_size)
+      && psym->st_value > filedata->section_headers[psym->st_shndx].sh_size
+      && ! is_mapping_symbol (strtab + psym->st_name))
     warn (_("local symbol %s has a value (%#" PRIx64 ") which is larger than mergeable section %s's size (%#" PRIx64 ")\n"),
 	  strtab + psym->st_name,
 	  psym->st_value,
@@ -23034,9 +23049,7 @@ get_symbol_for_build_attribute (Filedata
 
 	/* The AArch64, ARM and RISC-V architectures define mapping symbols
 	   (eg $d, $x, $t) which we want to ignore.  */
-	if (ba_cache.strtab[sym->st_name] == '$'
-	    && ba_cache.strtab[sym->st_name + 1] != 0
-	    && ba_cache.strtab[sym->st_name + 2] == 0)
+	if (is_mapping_symbol (ba_cache.strtab + sym->st_name))
 	  continue;
 
 	if (is_open_attr)