This is the mail archive of the
gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Linkage order
- From: "Hauke Krüger(IND)" <krueger at ind dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:18:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: Linkage order
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <53F2F748 dot 1010106 at ind dot rwth-aachen dot de> <53F314C9 dot 7040807 at redhat dot com>
Hi,
thank you for your answer.
> On 08/19/2014 09:05 AM, "Hauke Krüger(IND)" wrote:
>
>> Question: Can I somehow tell the linker to prefer "local" function calls
>> such that this problem is solved?
>
> This is more of a binutils question. One way to do this reliability
> with static linking is to use "ld -r --retain-symbols-file".
>
I can see with nm that the "--retain-symbols-file" option leads to a
library file that only exposes those symbols specified in the file
given as argument. Is that the list of symbols which also the ld tool
really sees? Why the option -r?