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Re: Question about archive search behavior vs. --defsym

On 9/9/2010 9:17 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>>>> $ gcc main.c -Wl,--defsym=f=4 -L. -lf
>>>>
>>>> pulls in f.o from libf.a even though the symbol is already defined.

> I think it would be fairly easy to fix.  Basically as soon as a --defsym
> or symbol assignment in a linker script is read, the linker would have
> to make a symbol table entry for the defined symbol.  It would then have
> to fill in the values later.

I've filed this as PR #12001 in Binutils Bugzilla.

Thank you,

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