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Re: Bug or feature: symbol names of global/extern variables

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
To: Wolfgang Roemer <w dot r dot a dot roemer at t-online dot de>
Cc: Michael Veksler <VEKSLER at il dot ibm dot com>, gcc at gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:37:27 -0400
Subject: Re: Bug or feature: symbol names of global/extern variables
References: <OFA1BC05DE.E47D5AF3-ON43257092.00347928-43257092.00358C84@il.ibm.com> <4344F519.6020502@adacore.com> <200510061221.56082.w.r.a.roemer@t-online.de>

Wolfgang Roemer wrote:

Hello,

so it seems as if it would be best if I post that to the binutils mailing list. Agreed?


Indeed. This is not a simple change, but it would make a nice
well defined project for someone to work on!

> It sounds as if the symbol is still "maximum" and it is annotated with
> its type (something like debug information). I should be possible to
> hack the linker to emit a warning for symbols with conflicting debug
> information.

References:
- Re: Bug or feature: symbol names of global/extern variables
  - From: Michael Veksler
- Re: Bug or feature: symbol names of global/extern variables
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: Bug or feature: symbol names of global/extern variables
  - From: Wolfgang Roemer

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