[PATCH] ld --dynamic-list=

[James Lemke]

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On 10/29/2012 12:49 PM, James Lemke wrote:
> I recently had a customer complaint about building an ELF executable that
> exports entry points.  They used --dynamic-list=$file to specify the names
> for export.  To make that work they also had to specify -u for each name
> and make a reference to each name in their code.
>
> It seems wrong that they have to make a call to a symbol in order to have
> it exported.
>
> It seems wrong that names specified by --dynamic-list= don't create an
> undefined reference (as per -u).
>
> My solution is attached.  There is no functional change for building shared
> objects.  Only for using --dynamic-list when building executables.
> Tested & bootstrapped on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> Also tested on a MIPS target.
>
> Comments?

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Jim Lemke
Mentor Graphics / CodeSourcery
Orillia Ontario,  +1-613-963-1073