Landing: 873b163d69e3
Project / Subsystem
binutils / elf
Date
2026-09-11
Author
H.J. Lu <hjl@sourceware.org>
Commit
873b163d69e367705884a96a27699d14bcecb880
Source
public_inbox
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- elf: Hide DT_INIT and DT_FINI symbols
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- binutils: Prevents DT_INIT and DT_FINI functions from appearing in the dynamic symbol table.
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- H.J. Lu <hjl@sourceware.org>
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- • elf
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- 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
This change modifies the ELF linker to hide the special functions used for DT_INIT and DT_FINI from the dynamic symbol table. This prevents these internal linker-defined symbols from being visible to dynamic loaders or other tools that inspect the symbol table, addressing PR ld/34623.