From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "David S. Miller" <dm@neteng.engr.sgi.com>
To: dm@sgi.com
Cc: gcc2@cygnus.com, gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: global vars and symbol visibility for mips32/elf
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 05:24:00 -0000
Message-id: <199608091224.FAA07966@neteng.engr.sgi.com>
References: <199608090946.CAA27226@neteng.engr.sgi.com>
X-SW-Source: 1996/msg00074.html

Addendum, after further reasearch, the following patch to
bfd/elflink.h "fixes" my problem.  I say "fixes" because I am doubtful
that my fix is correct.  Would someone who is more knowledgable please
comment on my change?

--- elflink.h.~1~	Fri Aug  9 05:19:07 1996
+++ elflink.h	Fri Aug  9 05:20:37 1996
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@
 	      if (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defined
 		  || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defweak
 		  || (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_common
-		      && bind == STB_WEAK))
+		      && (bind == STB_WEAK || bind == STB_GLOBAL)))
 		{
 		  sec = bfd_und_section_ptr;
 		  definition = false;