Re: ld creates shared libraries with garbage in the .dynsym section

[Alan Modra]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:15:00PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 
> Using binutils-2.12.90.0.7, when linking programs against glibc for
> FreeBSD/i386, I got link errors mentioning strange versioned symbols.
> A detailed look using "readelf" revealed that libc.so.6's .dynsym
> section contained garbage symbols. In detail this section contained
>   - 1 dummy symbol,
>   - 64 section symbols,
>   - 1858 regular symbols,
>   - 26 section symbols again,
>   - 34 garbage symbols:
[snip]
> Filling up section .dynsym, predicted 31728 bytes, got 30768 bytes.

Hmm, 960 extra bytes == 60 symbols, so those 26 section symbols were
really "garbage symbols" too.  What version of binutils was used to
build glibc?  I'm wondering if you were using a version affected by
the problem reported in
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-03/msg00512.html ?

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre