Re: [RFA] Fix broken .linkonce

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

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:23:51AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:00:44AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:23:31AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:55:51AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > >On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:50:52PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > >> On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 07:48:08AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > >> >On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:11:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > >> >>H.J.  Lu's 2004-05-11 change to subsegs.c caused .linkonce symbols to
> > > >> >>be treated as undeclared, at least for PE.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >Can you add a testcase for it?
> > > >> 
> > > >> Can I get confirmation that this is actually the right fix before we
> > > >> start talking about test cases?
> > > >
> > > >I have used the new binutils to build gcc, glibc and kernel on Linux. I
> > > >don't have any problems. I am trying to understand why/how it is broken
> > > >on PE. A testcase will be very helpful.
> > > 
> > > Sorry for the delay.  Real world intrusions.
> > > 
> > > Here's a very simple test case.  It fails with the new version of gas
> > > and succeeds with older versions and after the application of the
> > > previously mentioned patch.
> > > 
> > >   as -o linkonce.o linkonce.s
> > >   gcc -o linkonce linkonce.o -lcygwin
> > >   linkonce.o(.txt+0x0):fake: undefined reference to `.foo'
> > >   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > 
> > > cgf
> > > 
> > > 	 .section .foo,"w" 
> > > 	 .linkonce 
> > > 	 .long	27 
> > >  
> > > 	 .section .txt,"wx" 
> > > 	 .long .foo 
> > 	^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > This is a known issue:
> > 
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-05/msg00030.html
> > 
> > Where does this code come from? If you can change your code, we can
> > make it as error. Or you should somehow revert my patch for PE only
> > and add your teestcase to gas testsuite.
> > 
> > > 	.global	_WinMain@16
> > > _WinMain@16:
> > 
> > 
> 
> Can you try this patch? I don't think we want to remove
> 
> 	if (S_GET_SEGMENT (s) == undefined_section)
> 
> 

Fix a typo.


H.J.

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