Re: PATCH: Fix ELF visibility handling

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:19:58PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> The currenr ELF visibility handling is wrong on several things:
> 
> 1. Ld doesn't report an error for undefined symbols with non-default
> visibility when there is a definition from a shared library.
> 2. Weak undefined symbols with non-default visibility results in
> undetermined run-time behavior depending on if there is a definition
> at run-time.
> 3. Ld gives no warnings when a shared library refeneces a hidden symbol.
> 4. ld merges visibility with symbols from shared libraries.
> 
> This patch fixes those problems with testcases. As for weak undefined 
> symbols with non-default visibility, I only fixed x86 and ia64.
> 

I modified the patch to separate handling of weak undefined symbols
with non-default visibility. Alan, could you take a look at it?

Thanks.

H.J.

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