Unused global UNDEFs can have side-effects in some circumstances so
the following patch avoids them by treating them the same as other
to be discarded DEFs - make them local.
Bootstrapped and tested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, pushed to trunk.
2020-08-03 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de>
PR lto/96385
* simple-object-elf.c
(simple_object_elf_copy_lto_debug_sections): Localize global
UNDEFs and reuse the prevailing name.
---
libiberty/simple-object-elf.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/libiberty/simple-object-elf.c b/libiberty/simple-object-elf.c
index c62d5bba551..7c9d492f6a4 100644
--- a/libiberty/simple-object-elf.c
+++ b/libiberty/simple-object-elf.c
@@ -1467,6 +1467,11 @@ simple_object_elf_copy_lto_debug_sections
(simple_object_read *sobj,
&& st_shndx < shnum
&& pfnret[st_shndx - 1] == -1)
discard = 1;
+ /* We also need to remove global UNDEFs which can
+ cause link fails later. */
+ else if (st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF
+ && ELF_ST_BIND (*st_info) == STB_GLOBAL)
+ discard = 1;
if (discard)
{
--
2.26.2
