(hppa-linux) simple testcase for binutils visibility problem

Randolph Chung randolph@tausq.org
Tue Nov 12 21:10:00 GMT 2002


> tc-hppa.h:tc_frob_symbol rips out unused symbols.  Don't ask me why,
> but it seems a reasonable thing to do.

Alan, pardon the naive question, but why is it a 'reasonable' thing to
do? it seems to me that you should be able to declare the visibility of
an undefined symbol in one object, and link it with the definition of
the symbol in another and have the visibility information 'merged' when
the objects are linked together.

on the subject of tests, a lot of the ld tests are failing because they
are linking together shared objects with non-PIC code. Not too
surprising that they fail (basically, most of the tests in ld-elfvsb).
i'm not quite sure what the tests are supposed to be doing,
unfortunately. anyone want to take a look?

randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
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