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Re: Hiding symbols in a static library

On Sep 28, 2009, at 13:45, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: 
It may be that --retain-symbols-file keeps symbol which have
relocations and does not convert them to local.  I haven't checked.

I took a quick look at bfd/elflink.c, and my impression is that that's the case.
Arguably that may be a bug, or at least a missing feature.

You may need to follow it with a call to objcopy --localize-symbols.
Or just skip --retain-symbols-file, --localize-symbols should do the
job (on a single object file produced by ld -r --whole-archive).

Yes, that ought to work...

Ken

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