Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type

[H.J. Lu]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:07:06PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
>   You may want to look at PR 4799 where I have proposed a patch for
>   adding support for the ELF standard's STT_COMMON symbol type to the
>   binutils.  This might matter to you because the patch would change
>   the behaviour of ELF targeted assemblers so that all common symbols
>   would have the STT_COMMON type rather than the STT_OBJECT type.  I
>   am particularly interested to know if there are any tools or build
>   systems out there that rely upon common symbols having the
>   STT_OBJECT type.
> 
>   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4799
> 

You need a few linker testcases for ld, ld -r, ld -pie, ld -shared
to make sure that linker generates correct symbol types for all
cases.


H.J.