------- Additional Comments From ryanryan52 at gmail dot com 2009-08-20 10:17 ------- (In reply to comment #1) > The linker script shown has two global wildcard matches. As the ld info doc > says, this is slightly crazy. They both match "test_new", so which one should > ld choose? The most specific match? How do you do that in general? eg. is > "tes*" a better match than "*new" for "test_new"? (If we make a special case > for "*", why stop there?)
the reason to make the special case is because the docs say that the special case is made. from the ld info page: You can bind all otherwise unspecified symbols to a given version node by using `global: *;' somewhere in the version script. that is exactly what this example is doing, however ld is not behaving in the way it is documented (afaict). and there are real life things (wxwidgets, for example) that currently depend on this (documented) behavior. the differences between test* and *new are really irrelevant here, the problem is not related to that, it's related to the use of "global: *", and ld not acting on that as documented. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10518 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
