/* bfdlink.h -- header file for BFD link routines
- Copyright 1993, 94, 95, 96, 97, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Lance Taylor, Cygnus Support.
This file is part of BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library.
if strip_all is used. */
enum bfd_link_discard
{
+ discard_sec_merge, /* Discard local temporary symbols in SEC_MERGE
+ sections. */
discard_none, /* Don't discard any locals. */
discard_l, /* Discard local temporary symbols. */
discard_all /* Discard all locals. */
boolean shared;
/* true if BFD should pre-bind symbols in a shared object. */
boolean symbolic;
+ /* true if BFD should export all symbols in the dynamic symbol table
+ of an executable, rather than only those used. */
+ boolean export_dynamic;
/* true if shared objects should be linked directly, not shared. */
boolean static_link;
/* true if the output file should be in a traditional format. This
/* true if BFD should generate errors for undefined symbols
even if generating a shared object. */
boolean no_undefined;
+ /* true if BFD should allow undefined symbols in shared objects even
+ when no_undefined is set to disallow undefined symbols. The net
+ result will be that undefined symbols in regular objects will
+ still trigger an error, but undefined symbols in shared objects
+ will be ignored. The implementation of no_undefined makes the
+ assumption that the runtime linker will choke on undefined
+ symbols. However there is at least one system (BeOS) where
+ undefined symbols in shared libraries is normal since the kernel
+ patches them at load time to select which function is most
+ appropriate for the current architecture. I.E. dynamically
+ select an appropriate memset function. Apparently it is also
+ normal for HPPA shared libraries to have undefined symbols. */
+ boolean allow_shlib_undefined;
/* Which symbols to strip. */
enum bfd_link_strip strip;
/* Which local symbols to discard. */