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From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Mayank Kumar <mayank@microsoft.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: How to determine if a global symbol is defined in .so and hence   needs to be output to the binary as undefined
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070907050527.GF11390@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76EBE649FB0E0E4DA883B5840459059F1F02B4BEED@AA-EXMSG-C412.southpacific.corp.microsoft.com>

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:36:04PM +0800, Mayank Kumar wrote:
>         Now I wanted to understand where this output_section gets populated so that I can debug through why this section is not coming to be NULL.

The ELF linker simply removes all the dynamic sections.  Search for
bfd_section_list_clear in elflink.c

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-06 10:42 Mayank Kumar
2007-09-06 17:05 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2007-09-07  4:36   ` Mayank Kumar
2007-09-07  5:05     ` Alan Modra [this message]

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