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Author SHA1 Message Date
Adam Langley
30eda1d2b8 Include some build fixes for OS X.
Apart from the obvious little issues, this also works around a
(seeming) libtool/linker:

a.c defines a symbol:

int kFoo;

b.c uses it:

extern int kFoo;

int f() {
  return kFoo;
}

compile them:

$ gcc -c a.c
$ gcc -c b.c

and create a dummy main in order to run it, main.c:

int f();

int main() {
  return f();
}

this works as expected:

$ gcc main.c a.o b.o

but, if we make an archive:

$ ar q lib.a a.o b.o

and use that:

$ gcc main.c lib.a
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64
  "_kFoo", referenced from:
    _f in lib.a(b.o)

(It doesn't matter what order the .o files are put into the .a)

Linux and Windows don't seem to have this problem.

nm on a.o shows that the symbol is of type "C", which is a "common symbol"[1].
Basically the linker will merge multiple common symbol definitions together.

If ones makes a.c read:

int kFoo = 0;

Then one gets a type "D" symbol - a "data section symbol" and everything works
just fine.

This might actually be a libtool bug instead of an ld bug: Looking at `xxd
lib.a | less`, the __.SYMDEF SORTED index at the beginning of the archive
doesn't contain an entry for kFoo unless initialised.

Change-Id: I4cdad9ba46e9919221c3cbd79637508959359427
2014-06-24 11:15:12 -07:00
Adam Langley
bbb42ffaf4 Silence spurious GCC warning.
Change-Id: Iae1d12a25184261fef175b39e5dbc84afb1c006c
2014-06-23 11:25:49 -07:00
Adam Langley
aacec17a63 Add client functionality to helper tool. 2014-06-20 13:17:37 -07:00