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Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/elflink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/elflink.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/elflink.h b/bfd/elflink.h index 2a8c3db..ab679a7 100644 --- a/bfd/elflink.h +++ b/bfd/elflink.h @@ -200,26 +200,7 @@ elf_link_add_archive_symbols (abfd, info) if (h == NULL) continue; - /* We have changed the GNU archiver so that it will only place - non-common symbols into its archive map. Thus if we come across - a symbol in the archive map, which is currently considered to be - a common symbol, we can safely assume that we should link the - element in, in order to get in the definition of the symbol. - - Previous versions of the archiver would place common symbols into - the archive map. This meant that in order to only link in an - element if it contained a *definition* of a common symbol, it - would be necessary to read in the element and scan its symbol - table - a slow and wasteful process. - - In fact previous versions of this code did not even do that, - instead it just unilaterally ignored any symbols in the archive - map which were currently marked as common. So in order to link - in an archive element containing the definition of a common - symbol it was necessary to have that element also contain the - defintion of a currently undefined symbol. */ - if (h->root.type != bfd_link_hash_undefined - && h->root.type != bfd_link_hash_common) + if (h->root.type != bfd_link_hash_undefined) { if (h->root.type != bfd_link_hash_undefweak) defined[i] = true; |