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

[H.J. Lu]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

That is a good question. I think we should discuss it  in the psABI group.


H.J.