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Define __start/__stop symbols when there is only a dynamic def

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 01:40:00 GMT 2018 
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 04:39:15PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> +extern int __start___verbose[];
>> +extern int __stop___verbose[];
>> +int
>> +foo3 (void)
>> +{
>> +  if (__start___verbose == __stop___verbose
>> +      || __start___verbose[0] != 6)
>> +    return -1;
>> +  else
>> +    return 0;
>> +}
>>
>> Which __start___verbose/_start___verbose definition should it
>> reference at run-time? There are more than one.
>
> They should be resolved as for any other symbol in an ELF shared
> library.  The test is verifying that we don't resolve to
> __start/__stop symbols in another shared library's __verbose section
> if there is a __verbose section in the executable.
>

Can you add another testcase with -Wl,--gc-sections on executable?

Thanks.


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H.J.
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