[PATCH, RFC] ELF/LD: Always consider STB_LOCAL symbols local

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 14:09:00 GMT 2017


On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:26:05AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Do not require forced local (STB_LOCAL) symbols to have a definition in 
> a regular file to be considered to resolve local to the current module, 
> matching `elf_link_renumber_local_hash_table_dynsyms'.  In the absence 
> of a regular definition any reference to a STB_LOCAL symbol will have to 
> be garbage collected along with the undefined symbol itself, or the link
> will eventually fail.  Either way the symbol concerned is not going to 
> be external.
> 
> 	bfd/
> 	* elflink.c (_bfd_elf_symbol_refs_local_p): Always return TRUE 
> 	if forced local.

OK.  I can't remember why I put the forced_local test after the
def_regular test in the original code.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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