PATCH: PR ld/5789: Linker doesn't check weak and hidden symbols

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:28:56PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> It isn't easy to resolve it to 0 at link-time for shared library since the
> load address of shared library isn't fixed. For x86, I will need to edit
> addressing mode of instructions. I don't know how reliable it will be.

That has nothing to do with it being hidden.  IMO weak should take
priority; GCC should not generate instructions that can't resolve
to zero for a weak symbol.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery