One thing I notice at saved_maxima and at saved_trad_gcl creation
is the "Building raw symbol table" notifier. This does not appear
when building the new images. These symbols are generated via the
lisp function build-symbol-table, which must be getting called
somewhere before save-system, though I cannot find it right now. I
don't think we are invoking this in the new image saves. In
general, the reloc code counts on the symbol table being generated
at compile time, and statically available at run time. I think,
though, that the old reloc code could also build the table in case
it was not initialized at runtime. the new code does not yet have
this capability, so perhaps I'll try adding this. But to be sure,
I need to be able to run gdb, which I can't now. Can you help
here, Vadim?