Recently a patch was submitted for a Xen Project test harness binary to
override the compiler specified @object to @func (see [1]). In a reply I
suggested we shouldn't make ourselves dependent on currently unspecified
behavior of gas here: It accumulates all requests, and then
bfd/elf.c:swap_out_syms(), in an apparently ad hoc manner, prioritizes
certain flags over others.
Make the behavior predictable: Generally the last .type is what counts.
Exceptions are directives which set multiple bits (TLS, IFUNC, and
UNIQUE): Subsequent directives requesting just the more generic bit
(i.e. FUNC following IFUNC) won't clear the more specific one. Warn
about incompatible changes, except from/to STT_NOTYPE.
Also add a new target hook, which hppa wants to use right away afaict.
In the course of adding the warning I ran into two ld testsuite
failures. I can only assume that it was a copy-and-paste mistake that
lead to the same symbol having its type set twice.
[1] https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2019-05/msg01980.html
2009-01-14 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
PR ld/9727
* elflink.c (elf_gc_sweep): Exclude the group section if the
first member of the section group is excluded.
ld/testsuite/
2009-01-14 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
PR ld/9727
* ld-elf/group8.s: New.
* ld-elf/group8a.d: Likewise.
* ld-elf/group8b.d: Likewise.
* ld-elf/group9.s: Likewise.
* ld-elf/group9a.d: Likewise.
* ld-elf/group9b.d: Likewise.
