PR22150, ld keeps a version reference for gc'd symbols
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@imgtec.com
Tue Sep 19 21:54:00 GMT 2017
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Alan Modra wrote:
> elf_gc_sweep_symbol should run after verdefs are calculated, since
> the verdef code creates symbols for the versions. However,
> elf_gc_sweep_symbol needs to run before verrefs so as to not emit
> useless verrefs for symbols that are gc'd.
>
> I've also removed a _bfd_elf_link_renumber_dynsyms calls added by
> Maciej after I fussed about it when reviewing. On further examination
> the call appears to be unnecessary. Looking at renumber_dynsyms also
> made me realize that the test to exclude .gnu.version has been wrong
> since 2016-04-26 (git commit d5486c4372), so fix that too.
Thanks for following up with this seemingly never-ending story.
Maciej
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