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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0000
From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Specify how undefined weak symbol should be resolved in
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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/) :)

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


Ciao,
Michael.