PR gold/12952

	* resolve.cc (Symbol::override_base_with_special): Simply override
	version with special symbol version, ignoring previous version.

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gold/ChangeLog b/gold/ChangeLog
index 819f250..ec1f3ea 100644
--- a/gold/ChangeLog
+++ b/gold/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2011-07-05  Ian Lance Taylor  <iant@google.com>
 
+	PR gold/12952
+	* resolve.cc (Symbol::override_base_with_special): Simply override
+	version with special symbol version, ignoring previous version.
+
+2011-07-05  Ian Lance Taylor  <iant@google.com>
+
 	* object.cc (Sized_relobj_file::include_section_group): Add
 	information to comment about signature location.
 
diff --git a/gold/resolve.cc b/gold/resolve.cc
index 8850a3d..720b350 100644
--- a/gold/resolve.cc
+++ b/gold/resolve.cc
@@ -911,7 +911,15 @@ Symbol::override_base_with_special(const Symbol* from)
     }
 
   if (same_name)
-    this->override_version(from->version_);
+    {
+      // When overriding a versioned symbol with a special symbol, we
+      // may be changing the version.  This will happen if we see a
+      // special symbol such as "_end" defined in a shared object with
+      // one version (from a version script), but we want to define it
+      // here with a different version (from a different version
+      // script).
+      this->version_ = from->version_;
+    }
   this->type_ = from->type_;
   this->binding_ = from->binding_;
   this->override_visibility(from->visibility_);