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Re: ld not recording symbol versions for weak symbols

From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
To: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 14:56:16 +0930
Subject: Re: ld not recording symbol versions for weak symbols
References: <51D04682 dot 7000403 at ubuntu dot com>

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 04:53:54PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> This is PR15636, forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/712081.  If I understand
> Zack's comment, then the NEEDED entry for libraries where only weak symbols are
> referenced, isn't needed (first seen with 2.23).  However in this case, the
> symbol version isn't recorded either. Is this expected too?

I think it is quite reasonable.  After all, linking without the
library in question will succeed, and that will leave undefined weak
symbols undecorated.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

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