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Re: A patch for visibility.
- To: Martin von Loewis <loewis at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: A patch for visibility.
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 22 May 2000 06:38:07 -0700
- Cc: hjl at valinux dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000519130707.A6351@valinux.com> <200005221252.OAA05793@pandora>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> No, I believe the intent is that visibility should work for undefined
> symbols, as well. It is an error if a hidden or private symbols is not
> present when linking a shared executable.
This does not make any sense. The visibility is a property of a
defined symbol.
> Besides: there are still some systems that use st_other in an other
> meaning. It would probably be good if we treat those gracefully - I
> tried the best I could.
They are treated correctly.
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