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Re: Your bfd & ld patch breaks --as-needed on SPARC (and some othertargets)
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Alan Modra uttered the following:
> I made a followup patch to fix a similar problem with _DYNAMIC. Looks
> like we need to do the same for other syms.
>
> This patch also makes _DYANAMIC and _PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_ hidden,
> as Hans-Peter Nilsson did for _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ on 2004-11-02.
> I think this is a good thing to do, but haven't yet done much
> testing.. In any case, this change will require another bunch of ld
> testsuite updates, because we'll have fewer dynamic symbols. I won't
> apply it until I've also fixed the testsuite, but could you please test
> it in the meantime?
It seems to fix it for me: the _DYNAMIC and _PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_
errors both disappear.
(Nice patch, too, cleaning up a bit of duplication...)
I'll update the Debian and Ubuntu bugs when the patch goes in.
Thank you :)
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