Correct logic for "defined by object"

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Dec 23 13:10:00 GMT 2014


On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 04:46:29AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> No testcase?
>
> No.  This patch wasn't in response to a bug report or from observing
> wrong linker behaviour myself.  In fact, I don't think you can write a
> testcase that fails with the old code and passes with the new, due to
> the way def->by_object is used.  The patch was really just a tidy.
>

So this patch won't change linker behavior in any way whatsoever.
Basically the setting of def->by_object is unused.

-- 
H.J.



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