fake: undefined re

Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
Fri Nov 28 02:44:00 GMT 2003


"Vineet Sharma, Noida" <vineets@noida.hcltech.com> writes:

>          Can any one tell me whats wrong with liker if it giving a err msg
> like in COFF 
> 
> 	link1.out(.text+0x0):fake: undefined reference to `abc'
> 	link2.out(.text+0x0):fake: undefined reference to `xyz'

It means that your input file didn't use .file.  In such a case the
assembler generates a .file with the name "fake".  See
coff_adjust_symtab() in gas/config/obj-coff.c.

This is probably not the best way of handling the situation.

Ian



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