Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 03:41:16PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
>   * I have added some extra tests to the linker testsuite to cover linking 
> with -static, -shared, -r, and -pie.
> 

Do you have runtime tests? Without runtime tests, we don't know
if linker is really doing the right thing.

BTW, you may have to create a fixed ld.so first. That is what I
did for weak symbols a while back. I xfailed those tests on Linux
until most of glibc were fixed.


H.J.