Re: Can I link a.out .o with ELF?

["H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 09:31:30PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
> It seems that ELF_LINK_NON_ELF doesn't work too well with symbol
> versioning. As the result, when a verioned symbol is referenced
> in an a.out .o file, the ELF_LINK_NON_ELF bit on the default symbol
> is not set. I am not sure what else is not working right.
> 

I have a patch to stop ld from dumping core. But it still doesn't
work right. On Linux/ia32/glibc 2.1 or glibc 2.2:

# make
gcc -o ok dummy.c x.o
gcc -o not x.o dummy.c
./ok || true
hello
./not
make: *** [all] Interrupt

I had to use Ctrl-C to stop it. The problem is ld sees printf
in x.o first.


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