Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Thu Sep 9 06:55:00 GMT 2010

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On 9/8/2010 11:19 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>> $ gcc main.c -Wl,--defsym=f=4 -L. -lf
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>> pulls in f.o from libf.a even though the symbol is already defined.

> It's a phase ordering problem.  Objects are pulled in from archives
> before symbol assignments are processed.

> I think this has to be considered a bug.

OK.  Is this a structurally hard thing to fix?  Or just something that
would take some effort?  And, does GOLD handle this correctly?

Thanks,

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