Re: problem with dynamic symbols forced to local on Itanium linker

[Alan Modra]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:19:04PM -0800, Lowney, Geoff wrote:
>        /* Decide whether to output this symbol in this pass.  */
>          if (eoinfo->localsyms)
>          {
>            if ((h->elf_link_hash_flags & ELF_LINK_FORCED_LOCAL) == 0)
>              return true;
>          }
>          else
>          {
>     #if 0
>             if ((h->elf_link_hash_flags & ELF_LINK_FORCED_LOCAL) != 0)
>               return true;
>     #endif
>          }
> 
> Is this correct?

No.

>  Why is the check there?

It's there because elf_link_output_extsym is called twice, firstly for
local syms, then for global syms.  At least that is the case for
shared libs.  I think the same thing should happen with applications.
See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-02/msg00687.html
You've just given me a good reason to check it in.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre