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[Bug binutils/22967] nm should distinguish in between local and global i


From: mliska at suse dot cz
Subject: [Bug binutils/22967] nm should distinguish in between local and global ifunc
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:43:21 +0000

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22967

--- Comment #11 from Martin Liska <mliska at suse dot cz> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #10)
> (In reply to Martin Liska from comment #9)
> 
> > Can't we just change behavior and properly mentioned that in release notes?
> 
> I think that that would be a bad idea.  I suspect that there are scripts
> out there that currently depend upon nm displaying 'i' for both kinds of
> ifunc symbol, and if we change the default behaviour we will break them.
> (This has happened before with other parts of the output from nm and
> readelf).
> 
> The idea of the configure time option is that the change can be made
> permanent, as long as the toolchain builder is happy to do so.  This
> allows distribution maintainers to decide for themselves whic type og
> behaviour they want.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick

All right, that's for clarification and it makes sense.
In that case, I would drop the --ifunc-chars option. The configure option seems
to me sufficient control.

What do you think?

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