From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: H J Lu <hjl@zoom.com>
To: ian@cygnus.com (Ian Lance Taylor), eric@aib.com (Eric Youngdale)
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: -Bsymbolic is broken in ld
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 08:32:00 -0000
Message-id: <199601291632.IAA11943@aurora.romoidoy.com>
X-SW-Source: 1996/msg00005.html

Hi,

I think -Bsymbolic in ld is broken. It doesn't work in most cases.
May I suggest one approach?

1. Remove all the old -Bsymbolic stuff, except for setting DT_SYMBOLIC.
2. Add the BSF_SYMBOLIC bit to the symbol flag in addition to
   BSF_GLOBAL, BSF_WEAK, BSF_LOCAL, ...
3. If the BSF_SYMBOLIC bit is set, the symbol is treated just
   like a local symbol.
3. When writing to the disk, clear the BSF_SYMBOLIC bit.

Ian, Eric, will that work? I really like to see -Bsymbolic get fixed.

Thanks a lot.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu)