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Re: Broken .hidden support in current binutils on ia32
- To: pthomas at suse dot de
- Subject: Re: Broken .hidden support in current binutils on ia32
- From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:27:46 +0200
- CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, hjl at lucon dot org, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000605000324.A28963@Jeffreys.suse.de> <200006051652.SAA01593@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de> <20000605233419.B25525@Jeffreys.suse.de> <200006052149.XAA03156@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de> <20000606031126.A27087@Jeffreys.suse.de>
> Never the less we have to revamp the autoconf test to also check for broken
> visibility support or it'll bite us on and on. Is anybody more familiar with
> the ELF visibility support able to come up with a short test for it that we
> could use for this purpose?
That is hardly possible. Please understand that there is not really a
bug in the binutils, it's just that the dynamic linker is does not
match the expectations of the static linker. Anything testing for
*that* is going to be very complicated and very specific. So far, the
broken code lives only in binutils snapshots, and I think it is
reasonable to expect people to upgrade to a later snapshot or a
released version if they run into the problem - of course, assuming
that the released version really does fix the problem.
Regards,
Martin