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Re: PROVIDE problems

From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:31:56 -0700
Subject: Re: PROVIDE problems

> I had problems with Roland's change to the linker script generation.
> Adding PROVIDE to define __start___libc_freeres_ptrs etc didn't work for
> some reason.  I've removed the PROVIDEs now.  This means we have a few
> more symbols where they don't belong but it's better than nothing.  This
> might be a linker bug but I'm not sure about this at this point.

What broken results did you see?  It looked ok to me.  The linker produces
the symbols as undefined locals in the libc.so .symtab, which is odd.
But it uses the right values in the GOT, where it matters.

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