SHN_UNDEF symbols with non-zero value in MIPS shared object

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Uma shankar <shankar.vk@gmail.com> writes:

> MIPS gcc version is  4.3.2
>
> Today  I saw that .so files of MIPS contain some undef symbols with
> non-zero value
>
> The few I saw are defined in libC
>
> Wont this confuse dynamic linker of 4.3.2  ?  ( i know that in 4.3.3.
> , there is the STO_MIPS_PLT check  which  skip these. )
>
> How does the dynamic  linker  ignore them during lookup ?
> What is the purpose of these symbols ?


I answered this question over on gcc.  Please keep follows on
gcc-help, though.

Ian