[syslinux] syslinux-6.04-pre2

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 20:17 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> On 2/7/19 1:53 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
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> > > > -z muldefs would bloat the libraries unnecessarily, but worse it might
> > > > mask real errors.
> > > 
> > > Looking into the debian patches posted here I see that not using -z muldefs causes
> > > bugs. I think you should just use muldefs and report the duplicated memset/memcpy syms
> > > in gnu-efi as an bug as gnu-efi has no business defining these, its a lib.
> > 
> > ehh, there a bug already. Created by me some time ago. Completely forgot about that :)
> > Please chime in ...
> > 
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> Seems to me that that is exactly the kind of thing a library should
> provide...

But not this library surely ? Looking at gnu-efi one can see that is is a workaround for gcc/MSVC
and only for memcpy/memset :
  https://sourceforge.net/p/gnu-efi/code/ci/b1d426ce67cbeaa1a8ec7d9b8d0d8071ae4563b4/
I have suggested that gnu-efi should use weak syms for these.