Re: Common symbols cause load from archive

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Ian Dall <address@hidden> writes:

> What happens is that "glob" is a common symbol after assembling, but
> it causes glob.o to be loaded from libc.a, and then it gets resolved
> to an address in the text segment and a core dump results when it is
> assigned to.
> 
> Is this behaviour correct? It seems to be as documented except that I
> think archives should probably only be searched to resolve undefined
> variables, not common variables.

That is how archives normally work, although perhaps there is a bug in
this target.  Use the -M option to confirm that nothing else is
causing glob to be pulled in from libc.a.

Ian