From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Amit Gud <agud@redhat.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, bug-binutils@gnu.org,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: relocation entries for absolute symbols
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bqsfbltm.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44A05DA5.7070507@redhat.com>
Amit Gud <agud@redhat.com> writes:
> I'm compiling the GNU/Linux kernel as a shared library and I've found
> that relocation entries are created even for absolute symbols. Is
> there any work-around for this, or is it a known bug?
That is correct behaviour if the symbol is globally visible. In a
shared library, by default, any symbol may be overridden by the main
executable. That means that a relocation entry is required.
One fix would be to force the symbol to be hidden using an attribute
or a linker script.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-26 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-26 22:21 Amit Gud
2006-06-27 7:29 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2006-07-13 2:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-07-13 8:45 ` Peter S. Mazinger
2006-07-13 13:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-07-19 9:12 ` Alan Modra
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