Re: Wrong symbol length in ELF object

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:00:37PM +0000, Paul Edwards wrote:
> address@hidden ~/samples/weaksyms $ readelf -s libweaklib.a |grep Foo
>      7: 00000000    10 FUNC    WEAK   DEFAULT    1 Foo
>      8: 00000000    10 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 PFoo
> address@hidden ~/samples/weaksyms $ readelf -s libmylib.a |grep Foo
>      7: 00000000    79 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 Foo
>      8: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND PFoo
> address@hidden ~/samples/weaksyms $ readelf -s test |grep Foo
>    100: 080483b4    10 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   12 Foo
>    101: 08048404    10 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   12 PFoo
> 
> The executable should show the length as 79, shouldn't it?
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
> 
> Btw this happens on all systems I have tried it on: FC4, Gentoo, Suse
> Opteron - let me know if you want any specific versions

It pays to try build binutils CVS.  I think this bug will have been
fixed by 

2005-07-27  Alan Modra  <address@hidden>

        * elflink.c (_bfd_elf_merge_symbol): Skip weak redefinition
        regardless of strength of previous definition.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre