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authorIan Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>1999-07-19 19:08:33 +0000
committerIan Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>1999-07-19 19:08:33 +0000
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* elflink.h (elf_merge_symbol): Do merge symbols from the same BFD
if they appear to be specially created by the linker.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/elflink.h b/bfd/elflink.h
index 1e88b63..6fb9bba 100644
--- a/bfd/elflink.h
+++ b/bfd/elflink.h
@@ -368,8 +368,12 @@ elf_merge_symbol (abfd, info, name, sym, psec, pvalue, sym_hash,
/* In cases involving weak versioned symbols, we may wind up trying
to merge a symbol with itself. Catch that here, to avoid the
confusion that results if we try to override a symbol with
- itself. */
- if (abfd == oldbfd)
+ itself. The additional tests catch cases like
+ _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_, which are regular symbols defined in a
+ dynamic object, which we do want to handle here. */
+ if (abfd == oldbfd
+ && ((abfd->flags & DYNAMIC) == 0
+ || (h->elf_link_hash_flags & ELF_LINK_HASH_DEF_REGULAR) == 0))
return true;
/* NEWDYN and OLDDYN indicate whether the new or old symbol,