version scripts not properly honored for executables (ld 2.14)

[Jan Beulich]

Symbols listed as global in a version script used to link an executable
will not appear in the dynamic symbol table, unless --export-dynamic was
specified (and in that case the symbols made local by the version script
will obviously continue to be global). This is because these symbols
never get assigned a dynindx (elf_link_add_object_symbols does and can
do that only for symbols already known to be dynamic or when linking a
shared library, so elf_link_assign_sym_version should be doing this but
doesn't at present).
In addition, there is a perhaps significant performance degradation in
elf_link_assign_sym_version's first loop over the local patterns in that
this loop has inner conditionals that are loop-variable independent and
could thus be used to prevent entering the loop altogether.

Thank you,


i.A. Jan Beulich
Software Engineer Senior
Novell Linux Platform Engineering

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