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Re: Weak def test fails on ARM


On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:07:34AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The new weak dynamic symbol test fails on ARM, like this:
> 
> % /scratch/dan/obj/ld/ld-new -o tmpdir/libweakdyn1b.so \
>   -L/scratch/dan/binutils-mainline/ld/testsuite/ld-elf -shared \
>   tmpdir/libweakdyn1a.so -Tweak-dyn-1.ld tmpdir/weak-dyn-1b.o
> 
> /scratch/dan/obj/ld/ld-new: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol `__data_start' are not defined
> 
> And the resulting shared library looks like this:
> 
> Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 5 entries:
>    Num:    Value  Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
>      0: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  UND
>      1: 00800000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    4
>      2: 00000000     1 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND foo
>      3: 00800000     1 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT  ABS bar
>      4: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND __data_start
> 
> The symbol comes from libweakdyn1a.so, in which __data_start is
> defined at the start of .data (this comes from the ARM linker scripts)
> and foo is a weakdef also at the start of .data.
> 
> Should __data_start be a hidden symbol to prevent it from becoming
> .dynamic (and would that even work)?  What about the other script
> defined symbols like __bss_start, which are absolute symbols?
> 
> And should we not be picking NOTYPE symbols as aliases?

Try this patch:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-07/msg00332.html


H.J.


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