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Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/cofflink.c')
-rw-r--r-- | bfd/cofflink.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/cofflink.c b/bfd/cofflink.c index a99a5b3..151b1ff 100644 --- a/bfd/cofflink.c +++ b/bfd/cofflink.c @@ -2937,9 +2937,11 @@ _bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section (bfd *output_bfd, Note that weak symbols without aux records are a GNU extension. FIXME: All weak externals are treated as having - characteristics IMAGE_WEAK_EXTERN_SEARCH_LIBRARY (2). - There are no known uses of the other two types of - weak externals. */ + characteristic IMAGE_WEAK_EXTERN_SEARCH_NOLIBRARY (1). + These behave as per SVR4 ABI: A library member + will resolve a weak external only if a normal + external causes the library member to be linked. + See also linker.c: generic_link_check_archive_element. */ asection *sec; struct coff_link_hash_entry *h2 = input_bfd->tdata.coff_obj_data->sym_hashes[ |