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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: puzzling ld behavior, failing to find symbols from .so after adding more .o file
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:20:04 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkO3TCvzTL90ui8O@squeak.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f94bd18-ff3e-d3de-d3a6-1568a0b3709c@msgid.tls.msk.ru>

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 06:19:21PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> I think I got it sorted out.
> 
> in the new version the tdb.h file (which declares tdb_null
> and other stuff) added _PUBLIC_ attribute before all symbols,
> which is by default evaluates to attribute(visibility(default)).
> But when compiling samba, _PUBLIC_ is defined to
> attribute(visibility(hidden)) before including tdb.h.
> And things goes the wrong way from here...
> 
> It is interesting still why ld behaves this way, but the
> mystery is now solved.

A hidden visibility symbol will not be put in .dynsym.  So any newly
built shared library defining one of the affected symbols won't
provide a definition that can be used outside of that shared library.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-30  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-25 20:15 Michael Tokarev
2022-03-25 22:43 ` Andrew Bell
2022-03-26 14:56   ` Michael Tokarev
2022-03-26  0:25 ` Andrew Pinski
2022-03-26 15:06   ` Michael Tokarev
2022-03-26 15:19     ` Michael Tokarev
2022-03-30  1:50       ` Alan Modra [this message]
2022-03-26 15:19 ` Andreas Schwab

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