From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5842 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2003 18:31:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5826 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2003 18:31:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gateway.sf.frob.com) (64.172.59.41) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2003 18:31:58 -0000 Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (magilla.sf.frob.com [198.49.250.228]) by gateway.sf.frob.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F262B354C; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roland@localhost) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h3RIVuf13768; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:31:56 -0700 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:31:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200304271831.h3RIVuf13768@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: GNU libc hacker Subject: Re: PROVIDE problems In-Reply-To: Ulrich Drepper's message of Sunday, 27 April 2003 01:18:53 -0700 <3EAB926D.9020408@redhat.com> X-Shopping-List: (1) Adventurous postdoctoral tape (2) Cognizant detectors (3) Monogamous will-o'-the-wisps X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 > I had problems with Roland's change to the linker script generation. > Adding PROVIDE to define __start___libc_freeres_ptrs etc didn't work for > some reason. I've removed the PROVIDEs now. This means we have a few > more symbols where they don't belong but it's better than nothing. This > might be a linker bug but I'm not sure about this at this point. What broken results did you see? It looked ok to me. The linker produces the symbols as undefined locals in the libc.so .symtab, which is odd. But it uses the right values in the GOT, where it matters.