Re: PING: [PATCH] PR target/35514: Gcc shoud generate symbol type for undefined symbol

[Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt at redhat dot com>]

On 10/08/2015 01:10 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:35 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 2:54 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 11:14 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Update default_elf_asm_output_external to also output symbol type to
> > > > help ELF linker to properly issue diagnostic message.

What kind of diagnostic message? The ELF linker seems to have managed to 
do without for a long time. Is there some discussion of this on the 
binutils list that you can point to?

> > > >  We don't output
> > > > symbol type for reference to external TLS symbol since assembler will
> > > > generate TLS symbol type based on TLS relocation and Solaris assembler
> > > > only supports the @tls_obj type directive, not the @tls_object type
> > > > directive used by GNU assmbler, which doesn't understand the @tls_obj
> > > > type directive.

That information would have to go into a comment in the patch.


Bernd