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Re: Intended behavior of --weaken, --localize, --globalize in objcopy

From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
To: Jake Ehrlich <jakehehrlich at google dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:49:11 +0930
Subject: Re: Intended behavior of --weaken, --localize, --globalize in objcopy
References: <CAAdEwvA-uGR6wk_693eGuZkUZgXZYZTFvAW92kQ2oZimxvsV-Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:50:52PM +0000, Jake Ehrlich via binutils wrote:
> 1) What is the intended behavior of weaken/localize/globalize with
> respect to whether a symbol is undefined?
> 2) Why is that behavior intended?

I believe the current behaviour can be traced back to
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-07/msg00040.html

So if you want something different to the current behaviour, you might
have some work to do.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

References:
- Intended behavior of --weaken, --localize, --globalize in objcopy
  - From: Jake Ehrlich via binutils

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