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Re: RFC: Make linker created symbol local
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:47:03 +1030
- Subject: Re: RFC: Make linker created symbol local
- References: <20050225000446.GA23160@lucon.org>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:04:46PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Since ELF linker may create symbols for both DSOs and executables,
> can we always make the ELF linker created symbol local?
Probably not. ld.so needs special syms like _DYNAMIC and
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre