Bug 1804687

Summary: Linker garbage collection removes weak alias references.
Product: Red Hat Developer Toolset Reporter: Nick Clifton <nickc>
Component: binutilsAssignee: Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Miloš Prchlík <mprchlik>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: DTS 8.1 RHEL 7CC: dsmith, law, mcermak, mnewsome, mpolacek, mprchlik, ohudlick, sipoyare, tborcin
Target Milestone: alphaKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: 9.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: devtoolset-8-binutils-2.30-55.el7.2 Doc Type: No Doc Update
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Clone Of: 1804328
: 1804689 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2020-03-10 10:58:55 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1804325, 1804328    
Bug Blocks: 1804689, 1804696, 1804697    

Comment 2 Nick Clifton 2020-02-19 13:36:28 UTC
Fixed in devtoolset-9-binutils-2.30-55.el7.2

Comment 5 Nick Clifton 2020-02-20 17:01:10 UTC
Actually fixed in: devtoolset-8-binutils-2.30-55.el7.2

Comment 6 Miloš Prchlík 2020-03-09 11:09:41 UTC
Verified with devtoolset-8-binutils-2.30-55.el7.2:

Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 8 entries:
   Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
     0: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  UND 
     1: 0000000000000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND __libc_start_main (2)
     2: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  WEAK   DEFAULT  UND __gmon_start__
     3: 0000000000000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND abort (2)
     4: 0000000000000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND printf (2)
     5: 0000000000420020     8 OBJECT  WEAK   DEFAULT   23 _environ (2)
     6: 0000000000420020     8 OBJECT  WEAK   DEFAULT   23 environ (2)
     7: 0000000000420020     8 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT   23 __environ (2)

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-10 10:58:55 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:0774