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Re: --as-needed change wrt undefined weak symbols
- From: Will Newton <will dot newton at linaro dot org>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:43:46 +0000
- Subject: Re: --as-needed change wrt undefined weak symbols
- References: <20130114035805.GF3244@bubble.grove.modra.org> <CAMe9rOr9pmgn=ARZn_kEcJvAm4yHpyDmgxq=7_XHRVs7pzOopQ@mail.gmail.com> <20130115022340.GO3244@bubble.grove.modra.org> <CAMe9rOrOBPOHkQpPzYjC=OBgwq4bF29zDTTWidW20RJ5Y-F3tA@mail.gmail.com> <20130115052328.GQ3244@bubble.grove.modra.org> <CAMe9rOqcu7_-aAkkF=im56KsQ9Ypb6YkmmogcZDoswkNsaPPqg@mail.gmail.com> <20130318024130.GA18331@bubble.grove.modra.org>
On 18 March 2013 02:41, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-01/msg00188.html
>
> bfd/
> PR ld/12549
> elflink.c (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Exclude weak refs when
> considering whether an --as-needed library is needed.
> ld/
> * ld.texinfo (--as-needed): Update.
> ld/testsuite/
> * ld-elf/pr14862.out: Expect no output.
>
> I'm committing the above patch. Apologies to the bug reporter that
> it's taken so long.
Hi Alan,
This change looks like it should break the "ELF weak func last DSO"
test in ld/testsuite/ld-elfweak/elfweak.exp but there doesn't seem to
be any change to that file. Is that the test that is referred to in
the thread linked above?
Thanks,
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Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro