[Bug gold/20963] New: __executable_start isn't defined when linking executable against .so needing it, but ld does
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. -- 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
[Bug gold/20963] __executable_start isn't defined when linking executable against .so needing it, but ld does
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20963 --- Comment #1 from Mike Percy --- Somewhat related to, but not a dup of bug 14525 -- 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
[Bug gold/20963] __executable_start isn't defined when linking executable against .so needing it, but ld does
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20963 --- Comment #2 from Mike Percy --- Upon further investigation by some others, this might not be a bug in gold, but a bug in ld.so (which running ldd is showing). nm --dynamic shows the symbol is defined (although it's defined differently to how ld.bfd does it): bfd: 0759 T __etext U __executable_start gold: 0858 A __etext A __executable_start ld.so copes fine with __etext, but chokes on __executable_start. -- 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
