Bug#62008: ld leaves hidden/internal symbols in the symbol table (Patch Included)

[H . J . Lu]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 04:01:35PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > >From what I read in the gABI draft, STV_PROTECTED works like -Bsymbolic
> > on one symbol
> 
> Yes.  Since you associate STV_PROTECTED with a defined symbol always
> the local symbol is found.

Well, It is not clear that STV_PROTECTED should remove the PLT entry.
-Bsymbolic in the GNU ld removes the PLT entry.

> 
> > and STV_HIDDEN works like -Bsymbolic plus local symbol
> > in symbol versioning script.
> 
> In principal, yes.
> 
> > For STV_HIDDEN, maybe local symbol is enough.
> 
> No.  STV_HIDDEN does not remove the PLT entry.

You are right. The current static linker is ok. The dynamic linker has
to be updated.


H.J.