[lld] r315727 - Handle shared symbols in --gc-sections.

[Rui Ueyama via llvm-commits]

Yeah, executables can export symbols. But, what if we are creating a
statically-linked executable?

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Rafael Avila de Espindola <
rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> writes:
>
> > But DSO is short for dynamic shared object, no? And an executable is not
> a
> > shared object nor an .so.
>
> I would call an ELF executable a shared object. A symbol in a .so can
> resolve to a definition in the executable for example.
>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>
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