gold and shared objects with gcc 4.1.2

[Roland Baumann]

Hi Ian,

this patch indeed fixes my problem. Thanks a lot.

Actually, I am wondering whether it makes sense to use "-s" and 
"-shared" together. What information stays in the shared object that I 
am still able to link it?

Roland

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Roland Baumann <roland.baumann@coware.com> writes:
> 
>>>> I compile this with:
>>>>
>>>>> g++-4.1.2 -c test_shared.cc -o test_shared.o
>>>>> g++-4.1.2 -B <path_to_gold> -shared -s test_shared.o -o test_shared.so
>>> I'm not able to recreate this problem with either binutils 2.19 or
>>> with the development version.  Can you post the output of your -shared
>>> command line with the -v option?  That will show precisely how the
>>> linker is being invoked.
>>>
>> Here it comes:
> 
> Thanks.  Unfortunately I still can't recreate it.
> 
> I took a closer look at the code, and I found a possible problem if
> there are local symbols which have to go into the dynamic symbol
> table.  I committed this patch, which may fix your problem.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 2009-01-15  Ian Lance Taylor  <iant@google.com>
> 
> 	* object.cc (Sized_relobj::write_local_symbols): Don't write out
> 	local symbols when stripping all symbols.
> 
>