From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: (fixed patch) pe-dll fix for exporting common symbols 
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <199906242230.RAA10360@mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu>
References: <19990624231639.20198.qmail@daffy.airs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-q2/msg00347.html

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com> writes:
> 
> The linker lays out common symbols in lang_common in ld/ldlang.c.
> 
> I believe the code you are patching is run in the after_open emulation
> routine, which is before the linker has laid out common symbols.  By
> the time of the before_allocation emulation routine, the linker will
> have laid out the common symbols (see lang_process or ldint.texinfo).
> Assuming you are not doing a relocateable link, there should be no
> more bfd_link_hash_common symbols after that point.

Thank you! I believe you just pointed me to the correct fix. The problem 
is that currently the i386-pe ld is trying to write out the export 
table in after_open, hence there are actually symbols with 
bfd_link_hash_common, and things are going haywire. I'll redo it so that 
it's done in ldemul_finish instead.

Regards,
Mumit