https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18329
Bug ID: 18329 Summary: Turn off PROTECTED visibility with -Bsymbolic Product: binutils Version: 2.26 (HEAD) Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: ld Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org Reporter: hjl.tools at gmail dot com -Bsymbolic binds global references locally at link-time. There is no need for PROTECTED visibility which may have overhead at run-time: [hjl@gnu-tools-1 symbolic]$ cat bar.c __attribute__((visibility("protected"))) int xxxxx; void bar () { xxxxx = 30; } [hjl@gnu-tools-1 symbolic]$ make gcc -m32 -fPIC -c -o bar.o bar.c ./ld -m elf_i386 -Bsymbolic -shared -o libbar.so bar.o readelf -sW libbar.so | grep xxxx 1: 0000123c 4 OBJECT GLOBAL PROTECTED 8 xxxxx 15: 0000123c 4 OBJECT GLOBAL PROTECTED 8 xxxxx [hjl@gnu-tools-1 symbolic]$ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils