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Re: release soonish
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:41:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: release soonish
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 01:23:23PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I don't fully understand why/what is happening, but I filed a bug report
> > against binutils ld with a reproducer that triggers the same thing with
> > gcc < 4.7. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13621
>
> The linker behavior is certainly buggy. But I also don't see off hand why
> __TMC_END__ needs to be global at all. If it were just a local symbol like
> __TMC_LIST__ is, then it would just be swallowed entirely when the section
> is empty.
It needs to be because it is used in different .o files (crtbegin.o and
crtend.o). Both Richard and I came up with some workaround for GNU ld
(although admittedly my patch doesn't really work in the more complex
case), but we have some trouble convincing Alan Modra there is a real
issue. Feel free to join the fun :)
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-01/msg00269.html
Cheers,
Mark