[PATCH] PR ld/19636: pie changes program behavior and generate unnecessary dynamic symbols

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:23 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 07:00:32AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Non-dynamic symbols are always bound locally in PIE and we always create
>> the dynsym section, even if it is empty, with dynamic sections.
>>
>> I fixed x86.  Other backends need similar fix.  Any comments?
>>
>
> Symbols are always bound locally to their definitions in PIE, similar to
> -shared -Bsymbolic and we always create the dynsym section, even if it is
> empty, with dynamic sections.
>
> I fixed x86.  Other backends need similar fix.  Any comments?
>

We should remove undefined weak symbol from the dynamic symbol
table in executable.

-- 
H.J.
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