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Re: Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 05:01:46PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I believe this is a bug which should be fixed in glibc.
Yes, and ld.so needs to implement the different lookup rules too.
The problem is that since glibc doesn't support STT_COMMON, we
can't change ld until glibc is fixed. Ideally, ld would automatically
detect a fixed glibc (or newlib, which has the same lack of STT_COMMON
support).
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM