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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2018-10-11 11:38:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2018-10-11 11:38:10 +0100 |
| commit | de564eb5cc8c67fc38f9910937935eef5ebc17d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 8586b85602d6752c61d991f8fe5d759760e992d6 /binutils/ChangeLog | |
| parent | fbe61a3661b083a666e6550b3b0c2de364e6d4a6 (diff) | |
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Prevent the --keep-global-symbol and --globalize-symbol options from being used together.
This is the result of an email thread starting here:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-09/msg00031.html
The main point of the thread is this observation:
* Supposing we had an object file with two globals, SomeGlobal and
SomeOtherGlobal, if one were to do "--globalize-symbol SomeGlobal
--keep-global-symbol SomeOtherGlobal", you might expect that both
SomeGlobal and SomeOtherGlobal are global in the output file... but it
isn't. Because --keep-global-symbol is set and doesn't include
SomeGlobal, SomeGlobal will be demoted to a local symbol. And because
the check to see if we should apply the --globalize-symbol flag checks
"flags" (the original flag set), and not "sym->flags", it decides not
to do anything, so SomeGlobal remains a local symbol. Although this is
a weird edge case, should this be changed so that --keep-global-symbol
implicitly keeps anything also specified via --globalize-symbol? (The
code seems technically correct with respect to the documentation, but
IMO the behavior is counter-intuitive).
binutils* objcopy.c (copy_main): Issue a fata error if the
--keep-global-symbol(s) and the --globalize-symbol(s) options are
used together.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document that the two options are
incompatible.
* testsuite/binutils-all/copy-5.d: New test.
* testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run the new test.
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diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog index fd56834..8b84df5 100644 --- a/binutils/ChangeLog +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +2018-10-11 Jordan Rupprecht <rupprecht@google.com> + Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + * objcopy.c (copy_main): Issue a fata error if the + --keep-global-symbol(s) and the --globalize-symbol(s) options are + used together. + * doc/binutils.texi: Document that the two options are + incompatible. + * testsuite/binutils-all/copy-5.d: New test. + * testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run the new test. + 2018-10-10 Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> |