Re: Symbol refcounting for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols

[Stephen Clarke <stephen dot clarke at st dot com>]

H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Stephen Clarke <stephen.clarke@st.com> wrote:
> > H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Stephen Clarke <stephen.clarke@st.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > [...] there is no corresponding decrement in the
> > > > elf_i386_gc_sweep_hook() if the relocation is removed.
> > > > Is this just a minor (safe) inaccuracy, or is there some reason why the
> > > > refcount cannot be decremented in elf_i386_gc_sweep_hook()?
> > > It could be an oversight.  Do you have an testcase?
[...]
> > here's a synthetic testcase:
> > [...]
> I am testing this patch. Totally removing .got.plt section will
> be tricky since it is created before garbage collection.
> Please open another bug if it is really needed.

Works fine for me.
Thanks,
Steve.