For ELF targets, the code in the go linker that generates the
".shstrtab" section was using a loader symbol to accumulate the
contents of the section, then setting the section type to
sym.SELFROSECT. This resulted in a section whose offset indicated that
it fell into a loadable ELF segment, which is not how the .shstrtab is
supposed to work (it should be outside of all loadable segments,
similar to .strtab and .symtab). The peculiar .shstrtab caused
confusion in third party tools that operate on ELF files, notably
llvm-strip.
This patch rewrites the .shstrtab generation code to avoid using a
loader.Symbol and instead accumulate the contents of the section into
a regular byte slice, then emit the section's data in the same way
that .strtab is handled.
Fixes #62600.
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Change-Id: Ie54020d7b2d779d3ac9f5465fd505217d0681f79
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