[PATCH] Put GNU_UNIQUE symbols into the dynamic section.

Paul Pluzhnikov ppluzhnikov@google.com
Fri Apr 17 18:12:00 GMT 2015


On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:

> Gold has a --no-gnu-unique option that converts STB_GNU_UNIQUE to
> STB_GLOBAL while writing the dynamic symbol table. This was to work
> around an issue with older dynamic loaders.

Older loaders are not at all the reason for this flag:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-10/msg00276.html

> It's also possible that --no-gnu-unique might be ready for
> deprecation. Paul, do you have an opinion on that?

We still very much need --no-gnu-unique.

-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov



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