Add link option to allow undefiedn symbols in shared libraries
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2000-12-10  Fred Fish  <fnf@be.com>
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      * bfdlink.h (struct bfd_link_info): Add new allow_shlib_undefined
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      member to struct for systems where it is normal to have undefined
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      symbols in shared libraries at runtime and the runtime linker takes
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      care of redirecting them.
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2000-12-07  Zack Weinberg  <zack@wolery.stanford.edu>
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	* safe-ctype.h: New file.
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@@ -201,6 +201,19 @@ struct bfd_link_info
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  /* true if BFD should generate errors for undefined symbols
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     even if generating a shared object.  */
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  boolean no_undefined;
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  /* true if BFD should allow undefined symbols in shared objects even
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     when no_undefined is set to disallow undefined symbols.  The net
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     result will be that undefined symbols in regular objects will
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     still trigger an error, but undefined symbols in shared objects
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     will be ignored.  The implementation of no_undefined makes the
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     assumption that the runtime linker will choke on undefined
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     symbols.  However there is at least one system (BeOS) where
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     undefined symbols in shared libraries is normal since the kernel
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     patches them at load time to select which function is most
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     appropriate for the current architecture.  I.E. dynamically
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     select an appropriate memset function.  Apparently it is also
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     normal for HPPA shared libraries to have undefined symbols.  */
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  boolean allow_shlib_undefined;
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  /* Which symbols to strip.  */
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  enum bfd_link_strip strip;
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  /* Which local symbols to discard.  */
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