Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GNU ld -shared fails to link filtered symbols on Solaris

2006-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Botcazou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you prove that please? > > Take a look at the ELF spec. This is no proof as many things that have been created as joined work from Sun and AT&T fro SVr4 may look this way. And please stop responding to this as we did already see a useful repl

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GNU ld -shared fails to link filtered symbols on Solaris

2006-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > group meeting in 1987. > > ELF was used in SVR4 long before Sun adopted it when they moved from > SunOS to Solaris. That said, the version of ELF used in SVR4 was > closely based on the shared library implementation Sun used with the > a.out object file format in SunO

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GNU ld -shared fails to link filtered symbols on Solaris

2006-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Botcazou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, Sun did invent ELF, so an extension to ELF made by Sun seems to be an > > official extension that should be supported by all tools. > > You're rewriting history, ELF was invented by UNIX System Laboratories. Can you prove that please? The first

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GNU ld -shared fails to link filtered symbols on Solaris

2006-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Botcazou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you prove that please? > > Take a look at the ELF spec. Pointers? This may still not prove your claim as the final ELF spec has been done by Sun and AT&T as part of the the joined work for SVr4. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Sch

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GNU ld -shared fails to link filtered symbols on Solaris

2006-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Modra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:04:42PM +0100, Martin Man wrote: > > There seems to be a bug in GNU ld that does not link filter symbols > > properly. > > I'd hardly call it a bug. By the sound of things, Sun has made some > extensions to ELF that GNU ld doesn'