Avoid a dangling `vfork@GLIBC_2.0' reference on MIPS. Note: Here the ChangeLog and NEWS updates are removed from Maciej's patch, since they depend on other earlier commits. From: Maciej W. Rozycki Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:20:37 +0000 (+0100) Subject: MIPS: Avoid a dangling `vfork@GLIBC_2.0' reference X-Git-Url: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c14e752fc73d34c75d4f84f37fea8e0b1734cf98 MIPS: Avoid a dangling `vfork@GLIBC_2.0' reference This satisfies a symbol reference created with: .symver __libc_vfork, vfork@GLIBC_2.0 where `__libc_vfork' has not been defined or referenced. In this case the `vfork@GLIBC_2.0' reference is supposed to be discarded, however a bug present in GAS since forever causes an undefined symbol table entry to be created. This in turn triggers a problem in the linker that can manifest itself by link errors such as: ld: libpthread.so: invalid string offset 2765592330 >= 5154 for section `.dynstr' The GAS and linker bugs need to be resolved, but we can avoid them too by providing a `__libc_vfork' definition just like our other platforms. [BZ #17485] * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/vfork.S (__libc_vfork): Define. (cherry picked from commit b5af9297d51a43f96c5be1bafab032184690dd6f) Conflicts: NEWS --- diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/vfork.S b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/vfork.S index 80c362d..2c1a747 100644 --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/vfork.S +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/vfork.S @@ -108,3 +108,4 @@ L(error): libc_hidden_def(__vfork) weak_alias (__vfork, vfork) +strong_alias (__vfork, __libc_vfork)