Re: gold and shared objects with gcc 4.1.2

[Roland Baumann]

Hi Ian,

this patch indeed fixes my problem. Thanks a lot.

Actually, I am wondering whether it makes sense to use "-s" and 
"-shared" together. What information stays in the shared object that I 
am still able to link it?

Roland

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Roland Baumann <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > > I compile this with:
> > > >
> > > > > g++-4.1.2 -c test_shared.cc -o test_shared.o
> > > > > g++-4.1.2 -B <path_to_gold> -shared -s test_shared.o -o test_shared.so
> > > I'm not able to recreate this problem with either binutils 2.19 or
> > > with the development version.  Can you post the output of your -shared
> > > command line with the -v option?  That will show precisely how the
> > > linker is being invoked.
> > Here it comes:
>
> Thanks.  Unfortunately I still can't recreate it.
>
> I took a closer look at the code, and I found a possible problem if
> there are local symbols which have to go into the dynamic symbol
> table.  I committed this patch, which may fix your problem.
>
> Ian
>
>
> 2009-01-15  Ian Lance Taylor  <address@hidden>
>
>         * object.cc (Sized_relobj::write_local_symbols): Don't write out
>         local symbols when stripping all symbols.