From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Vassili Karpov <av1474@comtv.ru>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: ld bug?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 23:33:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011030233309.A22170@lucon.org>
References: <20011030013604.06bd2dc2.av1474@comtv.ru> <20011030233013.A22058@lucon.org>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00619.html

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:30:13PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:36:04AM +0300, Vassili Karpov wrote:
> > LD discards ELF visibility attributes when making relocateable objects.
> > 
> > Example:
> > a.s
> > ==
> > .protected symbol
> > 
> > b.s
> > ==
> > dummy:
> > ---
> > as -o a.o a.s
> > as -o b.o b.s
> > ld -r -o c.o a.o b.o
> > 
> > a.o:     4: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL PROTECTED  UND symbol
> > c.o:     8: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND symbol
> > -- 
> 
> It is ok since symbol is undefined. There is no such a thing as
> protected, undefined symbol.

I take it back. It is a bug. I will fix it.


H.J.