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Re: linker plugin api limitation
- From: Rafael EspÃndola <rafael dot espindola at gmail dot com>
- To: Evgenii Stepanov <eugeni dot stepanov at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 14:23:55 -0500
- Subject: Re: linker plugin api limitation
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On 1 March 2016 at 21:27, Evgenii Stepanov <eugeni.stepanov@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've sent the fix (get_symbols() returning LDPS_NO_SYMS) to the ML
> recently, but it looks like this is only part of the problem.
>
> I've filed https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26807 with a test
> case for a similar problem where gold incorrectly decides to include
> an input file in the link (and fails even before the first
> get_symbols() call). I'm not sure what's going on at this point.
>
The bug is in gold. It is handling every symbol provided by the plugin
as defined when handling --start-lib/--end-lib members.
Something like the attached patch should fix it.
Cheers,
Rafael
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