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Re: [PATCH] Add hidden visibility to internal function prototypes
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > This test is using various objects from the build of libc. Some of
> > those objects contain references to __assert_fail. Because those
> > references are hidden, they cannot refer to __assert_fail from
> > libc.so. Given the tests using internal objects those symbols in
> > libc.a can't safely be made hidden, so this patch reverts the problem
> > commit until any alternative approach that doesn't break the build can
> > be found.
>
> Can't these link against libc.so instead of libc.a?
The test links with libc.so, but it uses various GMP objects from libc.a.
Generically, any test using any objects from libc.a will have problems if
those reference hidden symbols (in this case, __assert_fail) from
elsewhere in libc.
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