Re: mipsel-linux and --export-dynamic

[Thomas Lopatic <thomas at lopatic dot de>]

Ian, Daniel,

Thanks a lot for shedding some light on this!

I was just a bit confused because the native Linux linker on my system 
by default only puts the unresolved (imported) symbols, e.g. _printf, 
into the dynamic symbol table. I expected the MIPS cross-linker to 
behave in the same way. So, I thought that this was - quite obviously 
:-) - a quirk.

I cannot verify this right now, but it may very well be the case that 
not all symbols got exported. I just noticed that a lot of the 
externally visible symbols were in the dynamic symbol table. And I 
concluded that the linker was behaving as if "--export-dynamic" had been 
specified. (I used "ld" directly, not via the GCC driver.)

I've had a look at the documentation for version scripts and for the 
visibility attribute and for me version scripts will be the way to go in 
this case.

Quite impressive what you can do with "ld".

Thanks again,
-Thomas