Re: Bug#62008: ld leaves hidden/internal symbols in the symbol table (Patch Included)

[Chip Salzenberg <chip at valinux dot com>]

According to Ulrich Drepper:
> Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com> writes:
> > If you could help me with info, please: What is this "ABI draft"
> > mentioned in the comment, where is it, and who's working on it?
> 
> It's the new revised ELF specification which we developed over the
> last year and a half.  It's not yet publically available.

I'd appreciate a peek.  Possible?

> > Well, then, does libstdc++-v3 needs to check something more than gas
> > support before it uses '.hidden'?
> 
> You can put .hidden in it's just that the ld.so's before glibc 2.2
> won't recognize it.  Therefore a check for gas is sufficient.  But
> the behaviour you will see might not be what you expect.  Therefore
> you should look for other means to make a smbol unavailable.  E.g.,
> by using a symbol map.

... if those symbols are no longer marked local by the linker, right?
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