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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, black@ieee.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] ld behavior varies for C++ static initializer depending on .a or .o input
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E99F1FB.1030008@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87he92ngiz.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>

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Zack Weinberg wrote:

> I'd like to point out that while this is true for static (.a)
> libraries, it is not true for shared (.so) libraries -- the linker
> generates DT_NEEDED entries for every shared library on the command
> line, whether or not they satisfy undefined symbols.  Personally I
> consider this a bug.

Agreed, I argued like that for years.  If somebody wants the DSO
included s/he can use -u to create and artificial dependency.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-13 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-11  3:43 Hal Black
2003-04-11  4:47 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-12  4:01   ` Hal Black
2003-04-12  5:43     ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-12 14:24       ` Hal Black
2003-04-12 16:52         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-04-12 18:01           ` Hal Black
2003-04-12 20:45             ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-13  2:11               ` Hal Black
2003-04-14 18:41                 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-13 22:55             ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-04-13 23:07               ` Zack Weinberg
2003-04-13 23:15                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-04-13 23:26                 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2003-04-14  5:14               ` Hal Black
2003-04-14  5:30                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-04-11  8:16 ` Alan Modra

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