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authorAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2014-08-18 14:43:03 +0930
committerAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2014-08-18 18:45:01 +0930
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PR 17287, DT_NEEDED of unneeded libraries affects --as-needed
PR 17287 bfd/ * elflink.c (on_needed_list): Only consider libraries that have been loaded. ld/ * ld.texinfo (--as-needed): Clarify that references from libraries must be from needed libraries. ld/testsuite/ * ld-plugin/needed3.c: New file. * ld-elf/shared.exp: Add needed3 test.
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@@ -1179,8 +1179,8 @@ on the command line, regardless of whether the library is actually
needed or not. @option{--as-needed} causes a DT_NEEDED tag to only be
emitted for a library that @emph{at that point in the link} satisfies a
non-weak undefined symbol reference from a regular object file or, if
-the library is not found in the DT_NEEDED lists of other libraries, a
-non-weak undefined symbol reference from another dynamic library.
+the library is not found in the DT_NEEDED lists of other needed libraries, a
+non-weak undefined symbol reference from another needed dynamic library.
Object files or libraries appearing on the command line @emph{after}
the library in question do not affect whether the library is seen as
needed. This is similar to the rules for extraction of object files