[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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