Re: PACTH: Fix duplicated version (Re: A symbol version bug?)

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:17:44AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:32:52PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:08:09AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > That's quite a few changes of mind. :)  Can you tell us why you "think
> > > it should work"?  Why doesn't bar defined by
> > > __asm__(".symver _old_bar,bar@VERS.0");
> > > not conflict with another bar, set to VERS.0 by a version script?
> > 
> > That is because by using
> > 
> > __asm__(".symver _old_bar,bar@VERS.0");
> > 
> > the intention is the definition of bar with version VERS.0 is _old_bar,
> > The version script only specifies there is a bar with version VERS.0,
> > nothing more. As my testcase show, it has its use.
> 
> I suppose it's fair enough to say that a .symver takes precedence over
> a version script.  Would you please make a note of this in ld.texinfo?
> Your patch is OK, but remove the unnecessary bfd_set_error on malloc
> failure.  bfd_malloc will do this for you.

Ok. Here is the updated one. I will check it in shortly.

Thanks.


H.J.

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