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Re: MIPS/ELF linker
Ian> Since this symbol is in the reserved name space, it's OK for
Ian> the linker to define it magically. It's no more buggy for an
Ian> executable to use the symbol _DYNAMIC_LINK without a
Ian> definition than it is for an executable to use the symbol
Ian> __program_header_table without a definition.
That's true, from an ANSI C point of view. But, it's not true from a
system-specific point of view. Some systems have well-known entry
points beginnning with `_'. It seems unncessary to deal with this
_DYNAMIC_LINK trick on systems that don't need it; hence the
suggestion that the linker script is the place for it.
But, as you say, I'm not quite sure how to do that; I'll just restore
the original handling of this code.
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