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Re: Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:41:17AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> > ld.so won't like STT_COMMON..
>
> I hope that is not correct.
See glibc/elf/do-lookup.h
if (__builtin_expect (ELFW(ST_TYPE) (sym->st_info) > STT_FUNC
&& ELFW(ST_TYPE) (sym->st_info) != STT_TLS, 0))
/* Ignore all but STT_NOTYPE, STT_OBJECT and STT_FUNC
entries (and STT_TLS if TLS is supported) since these
are no code/data definitions. */
return NULL;
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM