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Re: ld and common symbols
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: ld and common symbols
- From: Philip Blundell <Philip dot Blundell at pobox dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:03:05 +0000
- cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <199912212150.NAA16520@elmo.cygnus.com>
>It is intentional.
>
>This change is in order to match the behaviour of the native linkers
>for Solaris and HP-UX (and possibly others, we haven't tested), and is
>also necessary in order to allow libraries of FORTRAN generates
>objects to be correctly linked together.
OK, thanks. Unfortunately the GNU C library seems to rely on the old
behaviour. I will discuss it with the libc folks.
p.