Alan Modra wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:04:42PM +0100, Martin Man wrote:
There seems to be a bug in GNU ld that does not link filter symbols
properly.
I'd hardly call it a bug. By the sound of things, Sun has made some
extensions to ELF that GNU ld doesn't understand. Someone (you
perha
Alan Modra wrote:
The question, I think, is why the ABS state of the symbol *definition* is
inherited by the symbol state of the *reference*. A reference is
typically undefined (UNDEF).
Perhaps because the Sys V ABI says:
SHN_ABS
The symbol has an absolute value that will not change beca
Rod Evans wrote:
Martin might have to add some c stub functions to his builds so that
his libraries provide non-ABS filter symbols in the mean time.
Arrr, but then the gnu linker probably doesn't grok symbol filter
definitions from a mapfile, so the sc tub trick wouldn't provid
Joerg Schilling wrote:
This may still not prove your claim as the final ELF spec has been done by Sun
and AT&T as part of the the joined work for SVr4.
The original ELF spec was indeed created by these players. But, the design
allowed for a great deal of extensibility. All of the UN*X's have
