From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
To: alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gcc2_compiled.
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 20:55:00 -0000
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   From: alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (Alan Modra)
   Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:59:36 +0930 (CST)

      Somewhere since gas-960129, the handling of symbols defined outside
   of a segment such as "gcc2_compiled.", has changed.  On elf32_i386, I
   find that st_info is now zero (STT_NOTYPE), rather than one
   (STT_OBJECT).  This breaks insmod on linux, because it wrongly used
   (sp->st_info & 0xf) == 0 to test for undefined symbols.  I've fixed
   insmod, but why the change?  Is STT_NOTYPE correct for symbols such as
   gcc2_compiled. ?

The change was made for compatibility with other ELF assemblers.  They
do not set the type of a symbol to STT_OBJECT unless the assembler
source specifically directs them to using the .type directive.

Also, gcc2_compiled does not represent an object, so STT_OBJECT seems
conceptually wrong.

Ian