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Re: PATCH: PR ld/14323: Linker fails to handle weak alias with __start_SECNAME symbol

From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 06:46:59 -0700
Subject: Re: PATCH: PR ld/14323: Linker fails to handle weak alias with __start_SECNAME symbol
References: <20120702211657.GA25606@intel.com> <20120704004652.GL16148@bubble.grove.modra.org>

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:16:57PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> When we check symbol alias in a dynamic object, we should also check
>> symbol size.
>
> Always? ?How does this play with cases where _bfd_elf_merge_symbol
> returns size_change_ok.
>

Here we are matching a symbol to a weak alias.  Their
sizes must match.

-- 
H.J.

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