From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15162 invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2010 05:42:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 15152 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Oct 2010 05:42:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:42:43 +0000 Received: (qmail 17958 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2010 05:42:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.105?) (mitchell@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 21 Oct 2010 05:42:42 -0000 Message-ID: <4CBFD2D9.5050601@codesourcery.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:42:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H.J. Lu" CC: Ian Lance Taylor , binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: COMDAT group names become anonymouse local symbols References: <20101019200838.8A9725664F9@henry1.codesourcery.com> <20101021001823.GQ26553@bubble.grove.modra.org> <4CBF89DF.5070509@codesourcery.com> <4CBFC470.5060202@codesourcery.com> <4CBFCF29.5070602@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2010-10/txt/msg00341.txt.bz2 On 10/20/2010 10:41 PM, H.J. Lu wrote: > The symbol table entry of group signature doesn't need a name > since it isn't a real symbol. Having a symbol name for group signature > sounds a bad idea. Have you read through the previous messages in this thread? It seems to me that there's a consensus that in fact the ELF specification requires that group signature symbols have a name, and there's certainly a practical problem in that at least one linker relies on that. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery mark@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713