RFC: Make linker created symbol local

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Fri Feb 25 15:52:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:04:46PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Since ELF linker may create symbols for both DSOs and executables,
> can we always make the ELF linker created symbol local?

Probably not.  ld.so needs special syms like _DYNAMIC and
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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