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Re: [PATCH] PR ld/19636: [x86] Resolve undefweak and defined symbols in executable
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:58:51 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR ld/19636: [x86] Resolve undefweak and defined symbols in executable
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Hi,
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> My change will make ld guarantees the consistent behavior, regardless
> >> PIC or non-PIC.
> >
> > As you keep repeating this, I'll do so as well: yes, and you resolved
> > that consistency into the wrong direction, break PIC and non-PIC,
> > instead of fixing both. That makes no sense, just because there are
> > broken circumstances should not make us break all others as well.
>
> You keep saying non-PIC is broken, which I disagree.
Simple, if this testcase (which unlike your made-up ones to show various
inconsistencies actually does occur in the wild) doesn't print "works", I
call it broken:
% cat main.c
extern int __attribute__ ((weak)) printme (void);
void
main (void)
{
if (printme)
printme ();
}
% cat lib.c
#include <stdio.h>
void printme (void)
{
printf ("works\n");
}
% gcc -fPIC -shared -o lib.so lib.c
% gcc -fPIC -o main main.c
% LD_PRELOAD=./lib.so ./main
works
I can't fathom why anyone would call the above behaviour unexpected or
broken, or would desire the above to _not_ print "works".
Ciao,
Michael.