--as-needed change wrt undefined weak symbols

Will Newton will.newton@linaro.org
Mon Mar 18 13:43:00 GMT 2013


On 18 March 2013 02:41, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-01/msg00188.html
>
> bfd/
>         PR ld/12549
>         elflink.c (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Exclude weak refs when
>         considering whether an --as-needed library is needed.
> ld/
>         * ld.texinfo (--as-needed): Update.
> ld/testsuite/
>         * ld-elf/pr14862.out: Expect no output.
>
> I'm committing the above patch.  Apologies to the bug reporter that
> it's taken so long.

Hi Alan,

This change looks like it should break the "ELF weak func last DSO"
test in ld/testsuite/ld-elfweak/elfweak.exp but there doesn't seem to
be any change to that file. Is that the test that is referred to in
the thread linked above?

Thanks,
---
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro



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