Intended behavior of --weaken, --localize, --globalize in objcopy

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 00:19:00 GMT 2018


On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:50:52PM +0000, Jake Ehrlich via binutils wrote:
> 1) What is the intended behavior of weaken/localize/globalize with
> respect to whether a symbol is undefined?
> 2) Why is that behavior intended?

I believe the current behaviour can be traced back to
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-07/msg00040.html

So if you want something different to the current behaviour, you might
have some work to do.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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