How does _ZNSs4_Rep20_S_empty_rep_storageE (not) become a unique global symbol?

[Florian Weimer]

On 02/19/2013 07:06 PM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:

> I'm puzzled by the following on Linux, where I don't understand what
> causes it that a given symbol is exported as "u" (when viewed with nm,
> which documents "u" as "a unique global symbol. This is a GNU
> extension...") or not:

We tracked this down to a bug in ld:

<http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15107>

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team