Undefined weak symbol bug

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Sat Mar 29 03:32:00 GMT 2003


I am not convinced there is any dynamic linker bug here.  There are
definitely ld bugs.  I don't see what would still be wrong if those were
fixed, however.  Because of the hidden visiblity, both symbols ought to
have been resolved to zero at link time.  

The "main_hidden" case shows an ld bug in producing a local .bss value in
the executable as if for a copy reloc.  The R_386_NONE reloc generated is
probably the remnant of the R_386_COPY it thought it was going to produce.

The "shared_hidden" case shows an ld bug in producing a .dynsym entry at all
rather than resolving it to zero at link time.



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