Re: as/ld silently creates programs with undefined references/symbols

[Russell King]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:30:13PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> This is the bug.  There is no reloc to fixup the add instruction so the 
> assembler should never have accepted the unresolved symbol.  Please 
> could you try the attached patch (made against the 2.14 sources) and let 
> me know how it behaves for you.  If it works I will update the mainline 
> sources and you can publish the patch on the ARM Linux web site.

Thanks, I'm just rebuilding binutils with this patch.

However, I'm still concerned that ld was able to successfully link to a
binary with --no-undefined, and the resulting binary still had undefined
symbols.

Could someone explain why --no-undefined didn't catch the problem?

-- 
Russell King
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