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Output Listings and Error Handling
eld will print out informational messages about all the DLLs that it used if you supply
the -verbose option. A symbol in a DLL also needs to be exported from that DLL for
eld to find it. A symbol might also be a member of an archive, but the archive needs
to come later on the command line than the reference to the symbol to guarantee that
eld finds the symbol in the archive. Depending on the situation, you may be able to
use the -unres_symbols option to specify whether eld should consider unresolved
references to be errors, warnings, or neither.
1266 <filename>: reference to <symbol name>.
Cause. You used the -y option, to ask eld to provide information about the symbol
mentioned in the message, and eld is telling you that there is a reference to that
symbol in the indicated file.
Effect. Information (This is not indicative of a problem).
Recovery. No action required.
1267 <filename>: definition of <symbol name>.
Cause. You used the -y option, to ask eld to provide information about the symbol
mentioned in the message, and eld is telling you that there is a definition of that
symbol in the indicated file.
Effect. Information (This is not indicative of a problem).
Recovery. No action required.
1273 Bad input file: relocation table entry <number> for the
<section name> section of input file <filename> is a local
reference to the <section name> section.
because the <section name> section has been omitted from the
link, since it only contains an unneeded duplicate copy of a
procedure.
Cause. Procedures are contained within code "sections". The C++ compiler may
create duplicate copies of procedures, and eld can remove the duplicates if the
compiler gives permission. When this is done, the entire section containing the
unneeded copy of the procedure is removed. There may be references to the
procedure, but those references should be done by giving the name of the procedure,
and they will be fixed up to another copy of the procedure that was not removed. It is
also possible to make references to something within a code section by telling, not the
name of a symbol, but rather the name of the section and the offset within the section.
If there are such references into a section, the C++ compiler should not give eld
permission to remove it, because there would be no way to fix up the references. That
is what has happened. The message tells what input file this happened in, and where
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Error Messages
That is an error