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Re: Undefined weak symbols in shared libraries

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:40:03AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> If you need a cross compiler why not put the test in the gcc testsuite ?
>
> Answer: because it is testing the linker not the compiler.  But I think  
> that the execution tests in the gcc testsuite should be considered to be  
> toolchain tests rather then just compiler tests and hence it is  
> reasonable to include checks on the linker's behaviour.  Besides there  
> already are linker-feature tests in the gcc testsuite, so there is a  
> precedent.

Alternate answer: because the linker testsuite already has a handy
list of ELF targets.  It also has code for running objdump/readelf,
which is still useful on executed tests.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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