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Re: A patch for visibility.
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:52:26AM +0200, Martin von Loewis wrote:
> > Martin, you can stop arguing. Visibility on undefined references make
> > no sense. Both HJ and I were there when this extension was designed
> > and decided. And just to be sure we asked today for clarification.
> > Any future comment is just noise. The patch seems to do the right
> > thing and the intent is to not have any of the bits set for undefined
> > references.
>
> My point is: If there are undefined symbols with visibility, it is an
> error. That error must be detected by the linker. The patch should be
It is an error if the linker lets it pass through. But my patch clears
it.
> dead code; if it isn't, there is an error elsewhere.
>
My latest patch does detect the error among other things.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)