From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16188 invoked by alias); 25 Feb 2005 02:17:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16168 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2005 02:17:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gizmo03ps.bigpond.com) (144.140.71.13) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 25 Feb 2005 02:17:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 19514 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2005 02:17:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO psmam12.bigpond.com) (144.135.25.103) by gizmo03ps.bigpond.com with SMTP; 25 Feb 2005 02:17:03 -0000 Received: from cpe-144-136-221-26.sa.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.221.26]) by psmam12.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2a 234/8944349) with SMTP id 8944349; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:17:03 +1000 Received: by bubble.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 4C0E319E029; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:47:03 +1030 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:52:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: "H. J. Lu" Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFC: Make linker created symbol local Message-ID: <20050225021703.GX3563@bubble.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: "H. J. Lu" , binutils@sources.redhat.com References: <20050225000446.GA23160@lucon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050225000446.GA23160@lucon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2005-02/txt/msg00634.txt.bz2 On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:04:46PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote: > Since ELF linker may create symbols for both DSOs and executables, > can we always make the ELF linker created symbol local? Probably not. ld.so needs special syms like _DYNAMIC and _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre