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Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:07:06 +0100
- Subject: Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type
Hi Guys,
You may want to look at PR 4799 where I have proposed a patch for
adding support for the ELF standard's STT_COMMON symbol type to the
binutils. This might matter to you because the patch would change
the behaviour of ELF targeted assemblers so that all common symbols
would have the STT_COMMON type rather than the STT_OBJECT type. I
am particularly interested to know if there are any tools or build
systems out there that rely upon common symbols having the
STT_OBJECT type.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4799
Cheers
Nick