[PATCH] ld.so: handle STT_COMMON symbols

Carmelo AMOROSO carmelo.amoroso at st.com
Mon Oct 8 10:15:05 UTC 2007


Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 09:10 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
>   
>> Hi Folks,
>> as reported into glibc bug #5104 
>> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5104)
>>
>>     
> [snip]
>   
> I am good with this change. One question though: I don't think the
> STT_SECTION and STT_FILE are present in a relocatable object. If this
> is true(needs to be checked), then the above if stmt can be changed to:
>  #define STT_RELOC_MAX STT_TLS
> or 
>  #define STT_RELOC_MAX STT_COMMON 
> if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) > STT_RELOC_MAX)
>
> or if the above assumption is true only for STT_FILE
> if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) > STT_RELOC_MAX || ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) == STT_SECTION)
>   
This is the case, STT_SECTION symbol are present into symbol table of 
the libuClibc.so.0 for sure.
Actually, I did not find any STT_FILE symbols...

Carmelo
>
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