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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
References: <44A05DA5.7070507@redhat.com>
From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:29:00 -0000
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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