Undefined weak symbol bug
Roland McGrath
roland@redhat.com
Tue Apr 1 07:20:00 GMT 2003
> Should ld or ld.so resolve it to zero? If ld does, should the
> binding be changed to STB_LOCAL and remove the relocation entry?
Yes, I think so. It just doesn't make sense for these to be resolved at
run time, because the choice of values is in fact fixed at link time.
> Undefined weak reference is never intended to be resolved by ld. Many
> changes have to be made for it.
I don't understand this remark. ld resolves undefined weak references to zero.
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