[PATCH] gas: make S_IS_LOCAL() and S_IS_EXTERNAL() exclusive of one another
Jan Beulich
jbeulich@suse.com
Fri Aug 11 08:07:50 GMT 2023
While they aren't opposites of each other, there also shouldn't be any
symbol for which both return true; both may return false. Therefore
use S_IS_EXTERNAL() in S_IS_LOCAL(), thus subsuming the sanity check
which so far both did alike.
--- a/gas/symbols.c
+++ b/gas/symbols.c
@@ -2420,15 +2420,14 @@ S_IS_LOCAL (symbolS *s)
if (s->flags.local_symbol)
return 1;
- flags = s->bsym->flags;
-
- /* Sanity check. */
- if ((flags & BSF_LOCAL) && (flags & BSF_GLOBAL))
- abort ();
+ if (S_IS_EXTERNAL (s))
+ return 0;
if (bfd_asymbol_section (s->bsym) == reg_section)
return 1;
+ flags = s->bsym->flags;
+
if (flag_strip_local_absolute
/* Keep BSF_FILE symbols in order to allow debuggers to identify
the source file even when the object file is stripped. */
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