From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
To: hjl@nynexst.com
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: An ELF linker bug?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 08:07:00 -0000
Message-id: <199509111507.LAA19337@sanguine.cygnus.com>
References: <m0srxk6-00011HC@didi.nynexst.com>
X-SW-Source: 1995/msg00163.html

   From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
   Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 21:33:01 -0400 (EDT)

   Here is a simple test. "f1" should print out "foo". Under UnixWare,
   it worked fine. But gas-950822 failed to pick up the strong "foo".
   Also Solaris 2.3 got it wrong.

I think this case is undefined.  You are defining a symbol twice in an
archive.  It does not matter that one definition is weak and one is
normal.  A weak definition is pulled in from an archive just as a
normal one is.  This case is equivalent to defining the same symbol in
two different object files and including them both in an archive: you
can not predict which object file will be included in the final link.

Ian