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Re: PR12760 plugin vs. warning syms
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:48:42AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:37:58PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> We must call bfd_link_repair_undef_list when we change symbol
> >> type to bfd_link_hash_undefweak. ?Otherwise, assert may fail in:
> >>
> >> void
> >> bfd_link_add_undef (struct bfd_link_hash_table *table,
> >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? struct bfd_link_hash_entry *h)
> >> {
> >> ? BFD_ASSERT (h->u.undef.next == NULL);
> >
> > How could that happen? ?We know the new symbol is a definition.
> >
>
> After we turned a definition into an undefweak, we may see a reference in
> LTO output, which will call bfd_link_add_undef.
No, because the undefweak doesn't last. When plugin_notice returns to
_bfd_generic_link_add_one_symbol we'll turn it into a defined,
defweak, or common.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM