An ELF ld bug

[hjl@zoom.com (H.J. Lu)]

Hi,

I found an ELF linker bug. What happened is if I defined a weak
symbol plus a weak alias, the linker would dump core. Does anyone
has a fix?

Thanks.

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cc  -fPIC -c foo.c
/tmp/cca03535.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/cca03535.s:13: Warning: __foo already declared as global
cc -shared -o libfoo.so foo.o
cc    -c main.c -o main.o
cc -o foo main.o -L. -lfoo
cc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 11
make: *** [foo] Error 1
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
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/tmp/cca03535.s:13: Warning: __foo already declared as global
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