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Re: ARM: handling of weak symbols in thumb code

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
To: Adrian von Bidder <avbidder at acter dot ch>
Cc: binutils <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: 16 Jan 2002 16:06:19 +0000
Subject: Re: ARM: handling of weak symbols in thumb code
References: <1010573296.4906.11.camel@atlas><m33d1fdapz.fsf@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com><1011177816.6774.16.camel@atlas>

Hi Adrian,

> I suspect that either the linker assumes that function pointers
> point to ARM functions, or that the WEAK/NOTYPE in the symtab
> confuses the linker and causes it to assume that init_stdio would be
> resolved to an ARM symbol.

Probably. :-)  I am sorry - I am very busy right now so I do not have
time to investigate this bug, but if you want to have a go please do.

Cheers
        Nick

References:
- ARM: handling of weak symbols in thumb code
  - From: Adrian von Bidder
- Re: ARM: handling of weak symbols in thumb code
  - From: Nick Clifton
- Re: ARM: handling of weak symbols in thumb code
  - From: Adrian von Bidder

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