ld bug?

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:36:04AM +0300, Vassili Karpov wrote:
> LD discards ELF visibility attributes when making relocateable objects.
> 
> Example:
> a.s
> ==
> .protected symbol
> 
> b.s
> ==
> dummy:
> ---
> as -o a.o a.s
> as -o b.o b.s
> ld -r -o c.o a.o b.o
> 
> a.o:     4: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL PROTECTED  UND symbol
> c.o:     8: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND symbol
> -- 

It is ok since symbol is undefined. There is no such a thing as
protected, undefined symbol.


H.J.