Re: bug in linker (ld)

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jim,

> An attached tarball contains 4 small files that
> demonstrate the problem.  When the "doit" script
> is run, it prints:

I have not actually tried to reproduce this bug, but I did notice that
you are using an old version of ld:

> GNU ld 2.9.5

The latest version is 2.11.2.  I would suggest that you download this
version (or if you prefer, H.J.'s latest version) and try that.

> Also, a question:  Is is proper/possible to use an
> executable as input to ld?

No.  The executable has been fully resolved, so you cannot expect to
treat it as an iordinary object file.

> In particular, I want to
> use the --wrap option to override some system calls
> so that my own functions are called.  Something like:
> 
>     $ld prog my_recv.o --wrap recv -o my_prog

Why not just link with the object files and libraries that were used
to make 'prog' instead ?

Cheers
        Nick