On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:11:13PM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:00 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Why doesn't an EXPORT_SYMBOL create a reference?
> >
> > It does: EXPORT_SYMBOL(x) drops the address of "x", including
> > __attribute_used__, in the __ksymtab section.
>
> Well, the problem is that this is still an internal reference in the same
> object file. So ld looks into the lib .a archive, determines that none of
> the symbols in that object file are needed to resolve a reference and
> drops the entire .o file. Doing so, it drops the __ksymtab section as
> well, which otherwise would be used by the kernel to look up that symbol.
>
> So it drops the reference and the referencee ;), which is normally fine --
> no unresolved symbols occur. Unfortunately, the kernel really needs to
> know the contents of the __ksymtab sections to correctly export those
> symbols, but it doesn't reference it in any explicit way.
>
> I don't think there's an easy fix, except for not putting such objects
> into an archive/lib, but to link them directly.
Silly question:
What's the advantage of lib-y compared to obj-y?
> --Kai
cu
Adrian
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