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Re: ld bug?


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:30:13PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:36:04AM +0300, Vassili Karpov wrote:
> > LD discards ELF visibility attributes when making relocateable objects.
> > 
> > Example:
> > a.s
> > ==
> > .protected symbol
> > 
> > b.s
> > ==
> > dummy:
> > ---
> > as -o a.o a.s
> > as -o b.o b.s
> > ld -r -o c.o a.o b.o
> > 
> > a.o:     4: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL PROTECTED  UND symbol
> > c.o:     8: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND symbol
> > -- 
> 
> It is ok since symbol is undefined. There is no such a thing as
> protected, undefined symbol.

I take it back. It is a bug. I will fix it.


H.J.


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