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Re: Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 05:05:43PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi H.J.
>
> >I think STT_COMMON should be enabled by default. But we only
> >generate it when
> >
> >.type foo, %common
> >
> >is used. Given that gcc doesn't generate it, it should be OK.
>
> I think that would be a bad idea because then we would have two types of
> commons inside bfd. Those that had had ".type %common" set for them and
> those that had not. Such a situation would be far too likely to create new
> bugs in my opinion.
>
STT_COMMON and STT_OBJECT/SHN_COMMON are different. Otherwise,
we don't need both. We have to deal with mixed STT_COMMON in
relocatable file/DSO and STT_OBJECT/SHN_COMMON from relocatable
files. I think linker can keep track of STT_COMMON and
STT_OBJECT/SHN_COMMON.
H.J.