[Bug ld/1811] ELF linker loads member of archive for common symbol

2005-11-04 Thread kean at armory dot com
--- Additional Comments From kean at armory dot com 2005-11-05 04:39 --- For the record, I will repost a private mail I had with H.J about this. = Ok I've spent a while staring at that code and thinking about this, and even though you say it is there on purpose, I believe

[Bug ld/1811] ELF linker loads member of archive for common symbol

2005-11-05 Thread kean at armory dot com
--- Additional Comments From kean at armory dot com 2005-11-05 19:03 --- (In reply to comment #5) > Unfortunately it's too simple to allude to the historical handling of common > symbols. In a.out linkers when a common symbol appears in an object, and the > symbol is

[Bug ld/1811] ELF linker loads member of archive for common symbol

2005-11-05 Thread kean at armory dot com
--- Additional Comments From kean at armory dot com 2005-11-05 19:06 --- > I think Solaris linker hehavior makes some senses. Kean, can you try > this testcase with your linker? I agree on teh surface it makes sense, but it also has very specific broken behaviour. See previous c