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Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 10:04:24 +0100
From: Stephen Thomas <scjthm@...e.com>
To: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: RE: Linking musl with ld.gold
>
> only the object files with referenced symbols are linked from an archive
>
> so only a.o with the given main.o because of the symbol f
>
> now if you make some reference in main.c such that b.o should
> be included but main still returns 0 that would be a bug
>
> eg. add a void g(void){} to b.c and call it from main.c
Ok, thanks for that info. It appears that there is a problem in gcc 4.9 and not 4.8.3. Come to think of it this I only noticed the prompt being wrong when using gcc 4.9. I will check this with the git version of gcc also. I attach the code also.
This is from 4.8************************************************************Running with ...gcc (Gentoo 4.8.2-r1 p1.4-ssptest, pie-0.5.9-ssptest) 4.8.2Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NOwarranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Case A: 42************************************************************ar: creating a.a
a.o:0000000000000000 r dummy0000000000000000 T f0000000000000000 V hasfoo
b.o:0000000000000000 d foo0000000000000000 T g0000000000000000 R hasfooCase B: 42************************************************************
and this is from 4.9************************************************************Running with ...x86_64-buildroot-linux-musl-gcc (Buildroot 2014.05-git-00965-gf077df0-dirty) 4.9.0Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NOwarranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Case A: 0************************************************************ar: creating a.a
a.o:0000000000000000 r dummy0000000000000000 T f0000000000000000 V hasfoo
b.o:0000000000000000 d foo0000000000000000 T g0000000000000000 R hasfooCase B: 0************************************************************
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