Possible bug in gas/ld when using .linkonce

[Danny Smith]

Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found this one while playing with Cygwin's code which takes care of
> seamless loading of dll functions (autoload.cc). It seems that when a
> symbol in a section marked .linkonce is referenced, wrong relocation info
> is generated for that symbol.
>
> For example if you have several symbols - symbol1, symbol2 and symbol3,
> - which are placed like this:
>
> offset name
>      0 symbol1
>      3 symbol2
>     15 symbol3
>
> References to this symbols will be generated like this:
>
> symbol1 -> 0
> symbol2 -> 6
> symbol3 -> 30
>
> I am attaching a testcase. linkonce.cc is the code which demonstrates the
> problem. linkonce1.cc is the same code but with .linkonce directives
> removed and doesn't suffer from the problem. Here is also the output of
> `objdump -r' on both object files.
>
I don't think your usage of .linkonce in your example is quite corect.

In PECOFF, each linkonce symbol needs to have its own unique section.  When you
try to put  more than one linkonce symbol into a section you get problems like
those mentioned here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14808


Secondly, I believe you need to specify a linkonce type (ie, one_only, discard,
same_size, same_content)
'
Danny