https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21667
Bug ID: 21667 Summary: Global alias of common symbol is silently dropped Product: binutils Version: 2.29 (HEAD) Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: gas Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org Reporter: hjl.tools at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- [hjl@gnu-6 pr21661]$ cat y.S .set foo1,foo .globl foo1 .comm foo,8,8 [hjl@gnu-6 pr21661]$ make y.o gcc -B./ -c -o y.o y.S [hjl@gnu-6 pr21661]$ readelf -s y.o Symbol table '.symtab' contains 5 entries: Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name 0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND 1: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1 2: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 2 3: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3 4: 0000000000000008 8 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT COM foo [hjl@gnu-6 pr21661]$ I am expecting an error, like [hjl@gnu-6 pr21661]$ cat z.S .set foo1,foo .comm foo,8,8 [hjl@gnu-6 pr21661]$ make z.o gcc -B./ -c -o z.o z.S /tmp/ccUmeC8m.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccUmeC8m.s: Error: Local symbol `foo1' can't be equated to common symbol `foo' Makefile:37: recipe for target 'z.o' failed make: *** [z.o] Error 1 [hjl@gnu-6 pr21661]$ -- 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