[U-Boot] weak functions not being over-ridden (location dependent)

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Wednesday 26 November 2008 14:32:48 Graeme Russ wrote:
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > In message ... you wrote:
> >>> I have a very strange problem - I am trying to define a weak function,
> >>> but whether or not the function is overridden depends on where I put
> >>> the overriding function. Case in point:
> >>
> >> You are not the only one, I have seen this also with the LED interface
> >> in U-boot.
> >
> > I think this has been answered before: it doesn't work when the
> > functions are in libraries. It only works when the respective
> > functions are in explicitely linked object files.
>
> This doesn't seem right - reset_cpu () will be in a library no matter where
> I put it (either libsc520.a or libeNET.a)

the linker treates archives differently from shared libraries by design.  
"linked objects" refers to .o object files, not .a archives.
-mike
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