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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] ELF/LD: Always consider STB_LOCAL symbols local
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170413140917.GT24006@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1704121302570.25796@tp.orcam.me.uk>

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:26:05AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Do not require forced local (STB_LOCAL) symbols to have a definition in 
> a regular file to be considered to resolve local to the current module, 
> matching `elf_link_renumber_local_hash_table_dynsyms'.  In the absence 
> of a regular definition any reference to a STB_LOCAL symbol will have to 
> be garbage collected along with the undefined symbol itself, or the link
> will eventually fail.  Either way the symbol concerned is not going to 
> be external.
> 
> 	bfd/
> 	* elflink.c (_bfd_elf_symbol_refs_local_p): Always return TRUE 
> 	if forced local.

OK.  I can't remember why I put the forced_local test after the
def_regular test in the original code.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-13 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-13  9:26 Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-04-13 14:09 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2017-04-20 15:38   ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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