Re: How should the GNU linker treat weak references?

[Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:29:16PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> 
> > main.o with an undef ref to foo
> > foo.o with weak define of foo
> > libfoo.so with strong define of foo
> > 
> > Linking these should lead to foo being satisfied by the definition in
> > libfoo.so, as I'm sure you'll agree.
> 
> No.  Since foo.o is linked in its definition is found first.  Always.

Really?  If this is so, then bfd/elflink.h is currently doing the wrong
thing.  See elflink.h:688 and elflink.h:747

> All object files given at the ld command line are unconditionally used.

I was assuming libfoo.so was specified on the command line in this case.