undefined reference when mixing a.out and ELF object files ?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Vincent,

> I finally managed to reproduce it !

Yay.

> There was actually another important element: the problem occurs only 
> when there is a stab warning in the a.out object file. I have been very 
> unlucky, because I felt in that trap on my very first ELF test: I called 
> the gets() function, which causes a linker warning in my libc because it 
> is a dangerous function. Because of the bug the whole libc failed to link !

Which suggest a workaround - avoid all stabs warnings.

> To be continued here:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6478

OK, I will look at this next week.

Cheers
   Nick