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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Specify how undefined weak symbol should be resolved in executable
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOoqOvXXOjLKnyg0OPpPE4pEvN4kO6+e7nWz7Ng9LTBwSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1602221914130.20277@wotan.suse.de>

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2016, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> > Typo?  What is the meaning of "dynamic relocation available at
>> > runtime". Are you talking about a relocation entry or the relocation
>> > process?
>>
>> Dynamic relocation isn't available with static linking.
>
> So you _are_ talking about the process.  I think it's customary to call
> such executables "dynamic", or perhaps non-static, isn't it?  (Why I'm
> confused with your wording: a dynamic executable which happens to have no
> dynamic reloc entries, has "no dynamic relocation available at runtime",
> and so we couldn't add one :))
>
>> > How about "When creating a dynamic executable the link editor should
>> > ..."?
>
> So, I still can understand my version better (possibly with
> s/dynamic/non-static/) :)
>

Let's go with:

When creating dynamic executable, the link editor should generate dynamic
relocations against unresolved weak symbols so that their values will be
resolved at run-time.


-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-22 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-01  0:00 H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00   ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00     ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00       ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00         ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2016-01-01  0:00           ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00             ` Alan Modra
2016-01-01  0:00               ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                 ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00                   ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                     ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00                       ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                         ` Alan Modra
2016-01-01  0:00                           ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                             ` Alan Modra
2016-01-01  0:00                               ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-01-01  0:00                                 ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                                   ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00                                     ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                                       ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00                                         ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                                           ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00                                             ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                         ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00               ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                 ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00                   ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00                     ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00                       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-01-01  0:00                         ` Michael Matz
2016-01-01  0:00             ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00               ` H.J. Lu
2016-01-01  0:00   ` H.J. Lu

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