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Generic object attributes patch

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Wed Jun 27 13:20:00 GMT 2007 
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:30:44PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 07:58:49PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > Does it support attributes in DSO? I thought you would need
> > > a new program segment type for it.
> > 
> > Why?  These are for ld, not ld.so.
> 
> And when we do add some attribute it's of use for ld.so to know about, at 
> that point we can always either add a new segment for attributes or make 
> ld use the information in some other way to make it available to ld.so.
> 

Object files and shared libraries may have incompatible attributes.
Linker should be able to detect and issue a warning/error.


H.J.
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