ppc32 linker bug

[Andreas Jaeger]

Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:14:14PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
>> Fixed by tweaking copy_indirect_symbol.  I'm taking the opportunity
>> to flush a few other minor changes.
>> 
>> 	* elf32-ppc.c: Formatting and comment fixes.
>> 	(ELIMINATE_COPY_RELOCS): Move before ppc_elf_copy_indirect_symbol.
>> 	(ppc_elf_copy_indirect_symbol): Copy flags here for weakdefs.
>
> The last ELIMINATE_COPY_RELOCS change for ppc wasn't quite right, as I
> missed checking for copy_indirect_symbol being called from
> elf_adjust_dynamic_symbol.  Just putting the intention in a comment
> doesn't work very well.  :)  I've also enabled the same code for x86
> and ppc64.  ppc64 in fact wasn't ever generating copy relocs, which
> didn't matter very much as gcc code could always use a dynamic reloc
> instead.  However, they might be needed in assembly code.

Is this something that should be done for all archs?  Can I enable it
for x86-64?  Is there a testcase I should look at?

Thanks,
Andreas
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 Andreas Jaeger
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