Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type

[Nick Clifton]

Hi H.J.

 > Nick Clifton wrote:
> Yes, the tests in ld-shared cover this area quite nicely.  Running the 
> linker testsuites for a native linker configured and built with 
> --enable-elf-stt-common results in there failures:
> 
>   FAIL: Run with libdl2a.so
>   FAIL: Run with libdl2b.so
>   FAIL: Run with libdl2c.so
>   FAIL: Run with libdl4a.so
>   FAIL: Run with libdl4b.so
>   FAIL: Run with libdl4c.so
>   FAIL: Run with libdl4d.so
>   FAIL: Run with libdl4e.so
>   FAIL: Run with libdl4f.so
>   FAIL: Run with libdata1.so

> What I have not done however is built a fixed loader and rerun these 
> tests to make sure that they pass.

I have now run these tests with a fixed loader (and --enable-elf-stt-common 
enabled) and they all passed.

Cheers
   Nick