From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey Slepuhin To: David Edelsohn Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, law@cygnus.com, pooh@msu.net Subject: Re: libgcc problems Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:30:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <9801150308.AA25022@rios1.watson.ibm.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00468.html On 15-Jan-98 David Edelsohn wrote: > Andrey> We shouldn't take care about symbols like _ptrgl or _savef14 unless > Andrey> we want to enable reexporting symbols from static libraries (exactly > Andrey> a problem I got playing with libgcc), because these symbols are > Andrey> contained in a static member of libc.a. > > Did collect2 try to re-export these reserved symbols itself or did > you do something extra which caused the problem? GCC/collect2 never > should re-export symbols from a static library unless a user explicitly > creates an export list and (hopefully) knows what he or she is doing. I did something extra, i.e. playing with libgcc, I enabled collect2 to reexport some symbols from static libraries, which normally should be disabled. Andrey.