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Re: RFC: linker enhancements
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:51:14PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> I guess I didn't change the comments when I made the change:
>
> elflink.c: 903
> /* If the new weak definition comes from a relocatable file and the
> old symbol comes from a dynamic object, we treat the new one as
> strong. */
>
> elflink.c: 922
> /* If the old weak definition comes from a relocatable file and the
> new symbol comes from a dynamic object, we treat the old one as
> strong. */
>
> The old comments are wrong now.
More than that. Not only are the later comments wrong, but the
dt_needed code doesn't do anything now. That was what was confusing
me. I'll rip it out and fix the comments.
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Alan Modra
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