[Bug ld/6468] ld: --export-dynamic fails if no undefined symbols

[jreiser at BitWagon dot com]

------- Additional Comments From jreiser at BitWagon dot com  2008-04-29 20:46 
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Subject: Re:  ld: --export-dynamic fails if no undefined symbols

drow at false dot org wrote:
> ------- Additional Comments From drow at false dot org  2008-04-29 19:48 
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> Subject: Re:  ld: --export-dynamic fails if no undefined
>       symbols
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:54:37PM -0000, jreiser at BitWagon dot com wrote:
> 
>>[Did I cover everything that should be changd? ;-)]

> Well, you'd also need a PT_INTERP.  Probably more.

The executable has no undefined symbols (.e_entry receives control),
and in particular it needs no PT_INTERP.

>>What was the specific objection to --force-dynamic on non-VxWorks?

> I don't remember, but I'm sure you can find it in the list archives.

   http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-03/msg00020.html
     "Add --force-dynamic flag to VxWorks targets"

is the software itself, but I could find no indication of objections
by non-VxWorks targets. I saw just 16 matches to a search for
   "--force-dynamic"   [_with_ quotation marks: try not to ignore punctuation]
and none had any discussion about non-VxWorks targets, or including or
excluding the ability to force a Dynamic section.

I'd like to separate mechanism from policy, so that non-traditional uses
can ask for, and get, logical features without regard to who else has
used or not used them in the past.



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