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Re: [PATCH] PR ld/19636: [x86] Resolve undefweak and defined symbols in executable
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:52:04 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR ld/19636: [x86] Resolve undefweak and defined symbols in executable
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Hi,
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> It is in the same boat as LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK in ld.so. If one wants the
> >> old behavior, use -z dynamic-undefined-weak.
> >
> > That doesn't make sense to me. Why should one suddenly have to use an
> > option to get useful behaviour that one got since about forever
> > before?
>
> My change will make ld guarantees the consistent behavior, regardless
> PIC or non-PIC.
As you keep repeating this, I'll do so as well: yes, and you resolved that
consistency into the wrong direction, break PIC and non-PIC, instead of
fixing both. That makes no sense, just because there are broken
circumstances should not make us break all others as well.
Ciao,
Michael.