Alan Modra committed a patch to Gnu ld to fix a problem encountered on
PPC where the --defsym option wasn't copying the st_other bits to the
newly-defined symbol.
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-07/msg00094.html
Gold has the same problem, and additionally wasn't copying the symbol type.
This patch fixes both problems, by copying the symbol type, visibility, and
the remaining st_other bits to the new symbol for --defsym=sym1=sym2
assignments.
gold/
* expression.cc (struct Expression::Expression_eval_info): Add
new fields type_pointer, vis_pointer, and nonvis_pointer.
(Expression::eval_maybe_dot): Add type_pointer, vis_pointer, and
nonvis_pointer parameters. Adjust all calls.
(Symbol_expression::value): Update type, visibility, and nonvis bits
in caller.
* script.cc (Symbol_assignment::sized_finalize): Update type,
visibility, and remaining st_other bits for new symbol.
* script.h: (Expression::eval_maybe_dot): Add type_pointer,
vis_pointer, and nonvis_pointer parameters.
* symtab.h (Symbol::set_type): New method.
* testsuite/Makefile.am (defsym_test): New test.
* testsuite/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* testsuite/defsym_test.c: New file.
* testsuite/defsym_test.sh: New file.
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