Link failure is reproducible on gcc-11.1.0 target:
```
$ autoreconf -i -f
$ ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-debuginfod \
--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu \
CFLAGS=-march=znver3 \
CXXFLAGS=-march=znver3 \
LDFLAGS=" "
$ make
CCLD elflint
ld: elflint.o: in function `check_attributes':
elflint.c:(.text+0xdcff): undefined reference to `buffer_left'
ld: elflint.c:(.text+0xe557): undefined reference to `buffer_left'
```
It happens due to possible external linkage of `buffer_left()`.
The change forces local linkkage to always use local definition
(either inline or out-of-line).
Reported-by: Toralf Förster
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/794601
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org>
---
src/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
src/elflint.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 2c7be185..e030de0d 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2021-06-06 Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org>
+
+ * elflint.c (buffer_left): Mark as 'inline' to avoid external linkage
+ failure.
+
2021-05-12 Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org>
* elfcompress.c (process_file): Return 1 instead of -1 in case of an
diff --git a/src/elflint.c b/src/elflint.c
index 85cc7833..35b40500 100644
--- a/src/elflint.c
+++ b/src/elflint.c
@@ -3434,7 +3434,7 @@ buffer_pos (Elf_Data *data, const unsigned char *p)
return p - (const unsigned char *) data->d_buf;
}
-inline size_t
+static inline size_t
buffer_left (Elf_Data *data, const unsigned char *p)
{
return (const unsigned char *) data->d_buf + data->d_size - p;
--
2.31.1
