From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30571 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2011 00:07:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 30562 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Dec 2011 00:07:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yx0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-yx0-f169.google.com) (209.85.213.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:07:30 +0000 Received: by yenq10 with SMTP id q10so7378117yen.0 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:07:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.200.201 with SMTP id z49mr23670917yhn.20.1323216449564; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:07:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubble.grove.modra.org ([115.187.252.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f7sm6308120and.17.2011.12.06.16.07.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:07:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by bubble.grove.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 76718170C2BF; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:37:21 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:07:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: David Daney , binutils , linux-mips , Manuel Lauss , Debian MIPS , rdsandiford@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [Patch]: Fix ld pr11138 FAILures on mips*. Message-ID: <20111207000721.GD21034@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Daney , binutils , linux-mips , Manuel Lauss , Debian MIPS , rdsandiford@googlemail.com References: <4EDD669F.30207@cavium.com> <20111206054018.GB21034@bubble.grove.modra.org> <8762ht2yft.fsf@firetop.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8762ht2yft.fsf@firetop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00070.txt.bz2 On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:16:22PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote: > Showing my ignorance here, but is that the usual behaviour for this kind > of thing? I wouldn't have expected versions to apply to internally-created > symbols. Normally this sort of symbol isn't dynamic, at least nowadays. Earlier versions of GNU ld made many symbols like _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ dynamic unnecessarily, so it might be just a case of old mips code following even older practice. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM