Re: [PATCH 3/3] ld/testsuite: Add comprehensive PE COFF weak external tests
Project / Subsystem
binutils / ld/testsuite
Date
2026-06-30
Proposer
Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Increased test coverage for a specific linker feature.
- • Ensuring tests correctly target the intended linker version.
- • Addressing potential pre-existing issues in object file parsing.
All attributes
- project
- binutils
- subsystem
- ld/testsuite
- patch_id
- —
- discussion_id
- akRWucmJ5Ih535lU@squeak.grove.modra.org
- source_type
- public_inbox
- title
- Re: [PATCH 3/3] ld/testsuite: Add comprehensive PE COFF weak external tests
- headline
- ld/testsuite: Add comprehensive PE COFF weak external tests
- tldr
- Tests for PE COFF weak externals have been applied upstream after fixing a build configuration issue.
- proposer
- Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- committed
- sentiment_score
- —
- technical_tradeoffs
-
- • Increased test coverage for a specific linker feature.
- • Ensuring tests correctly target the intended linker version.
- • Addressing potential pre-existing issues in object file parsing.
- series_id
- binutils:ld/testsuite: add comprehensive pe coff weak external tests
- series_role
- reply
- series_parts
- []
- tags
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- • linker
- • PE COFF
- • weak symbols
- • test suite
- • binutils
- bugzilla_url
- —
- date
- 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z
Re: [PATCH 3/3] ld/testsuite: Add comprehensive PE COFF weak external tests
This discussion covers the addition of comprehensive tests for PE COFF weak external symbols in the GNU linker’s test suite. Initial test failures were reported, but later diagnosed as stemming from an incorrect GCC configuration that bypassed the new linker. After resolving this configuration issue, the patch series was committed upstream. Potential pre-existing buffer overflow issues in handling fuzzed object files were also noted.