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Re: ELF/m68k visibility handling in shared libraries

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:31:05PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:26:59AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > See the elf_backend_hide_symbol call in elf_link_add_object_symbols,
> > which is where check_relocs is called.  Not all visibility changes
> > happen later.
> 
> I suppose.  But given that we have to check again at the end,
> I don't see the point of checking earlier.

After looking at the patch in detail, I see that the
ELF_LINK_FORCED_LOCAL checks are just to avoid a record_dynamic_symbol
call.  The real question is why does the 68k backend require this
call at all?  Other than that, the patch looks OK.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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