[Bug ld/9790] New: LD's "export everything" logic problematic

[mail at colinfinck dot de]

I'm from the ReactOS Project and we use LD for linking executables, DLLs and
also drivers.

In ld/pe-dll.c:646, LD checks whether we have an export table and whether the
component to be built is an executable.

This works pretty well for executables and DLLs, but is quite problematic for
drivers: They usually don't export anything, but also don't fall under
info->executable.
Thus, all of its functions are exported by default, which is certainly not the
right way to go.

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           Summary: LD's "export everything" logic problematic
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.20 (HEAD)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: mail at colinfinck dot de
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
GCC target triplet: mingw32


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9790

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