SIGSEGV in ld at elflink.h:5500

[H. J. Lu]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 09:37:59AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:37:23PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > /usr/lib/pa20_64/dld.sl: Unsatisfied code symbol '__register_frame_info' in load module './gengenrtl'.
> > /bin/sh: 22331 Killed
> > 
> > These symbols are undefined weak
> 
> This touches on the general issue of exactly how gnu ld should handle
> weak symbols.  It's something I'd like to correct post 2.13, as I
> believe the current behaviour is wrong.  Ulrich, HJ, do you know
> whether there is a proposal to specify weak sym handling in the works
> for the ELF gabi?

Check out ld/testsuite/ld-elfweak/elfweak.exp. There are 12 expected
failures. I can work on a patch. But we have to fix glibc first:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-09/msg00109.html

Otherwise, Linux may be broken. I don't want to spend my time before
glibc is changed.



H.J.