https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20963
Bug ID: 20963
Summary: __executable_start isn't defined when linking
executable against .so needing it, but ld does
Product: binutils
Version: 2.26
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: gold
Assignee: ccoutant at gmail dot com
Reporter: mpercy at gmail dot com
CC: ian at airs dot com
Target Milestone: ---
Gold does not generate __executable_start if it is needed by a shared library
being linked to an executable. This results in the following error message when
running the executable:
undefined symbol: __executable_start (libfoo.so)
ld correctly generates the symbol in this case.
Support matrix for when __executable_start is defined:
| ld | gold
-------------+-----+-----
static link | yes | yes
dynamic link | yes | no
I wrote a reproducing test case and posted it here:
https://github.com/mpercy/executable_start
Observed on the following version of gold on Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial):
$ gold --version
GNU gold (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu 2.26.1) 1.11
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
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