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Re: [PATCH] Disallow copy relocation against protected data symbol
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:52:36 +0930
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disallow copy relocation against protected data symbol
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:13:15AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> property. This patch adds a bit to elf_link_hash_entry and elf_obj_tdata
Why is def_protected needed? Surely it is wrong to record the
visibility of a symbol that may not even be the final definition?
Why not just use visibility directly?
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM