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Re: DT_SYMBOLIC and -Bsymbolic


> 
> On Jun 19,  9:58am, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > Subject: DT_SYMBOLIC and -Bsymbolic
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do the current binutils snapshots and the Linux ELF dynamic
> > linker support DT_SYMBOLIC? It should be easy to add -Bsymbolic
> > to ld. The Linux ELF dynamic linker just needs to check the
> > presence of DT_SYMBOLIC in the shared library to control the
> > symbol binding. It is specified in the ELF doc, ELF.doc.tar.gz,
> > on tsx-11 and sunsite in the linux gcc directory
> 
> 	I doubt that this is handled at all - I never added support for it,
> so unless Ian did it, there is probably nothing.  The good news is that it
> would not be that hard to add.

That is what I thought. While I am on it, let me ask one more
question :-(. Is DT_TEXTREL supported? Or should it be?


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H.J. Lu
NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc.			hjl@nynexst.com