2001-06-19 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>

	* ld.texinfo (-E, --export-dynamic): Mention --version-script.
	(--version-script): Mention the language support.

diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index adf54cd..9810435 100644 (file)
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-06-19  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
+
+       * ld.texinfo (-E, --export-dynamic): Mention --version-script.
+       (--version-script): Mention the language support.
+
 2001-06-19  H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
 
        * ldlang.c (lang_check): Revert the change mode on 2001-06-15.

diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo
index 556f3ca..166c4f1 100644 (file)
--- a/ld/ld.texinfo
+++ b/ld/ld.texinfo
@@ -444,6 +444,10 @@ back to the symbols defined by the program, rather than some other
 dynamic object, then you will probably need to use this option when
 linking the program itself.
 
+You can also use the version script to control what symbols should
+be added to the dynamic symbol table if the output format supports it.
+See the description of @samp{--version-script} in @ref{VERSION}.
+
 @cindex big-endian objects
 @cindex endianness
 @kindex -EB
@@ -3537,6 +3541,17 @@ within the shared library, you can use the aliases of convenience
 (i.e. @samp{old_foo}), or you can use the @samp{.symver} directive to
 specifically bind to an external version of the function in question.
 
+You can also specify the language in the version script:
+
+@smallexample
+VERSION extern "lang" @{ version-script-commands @}
+@end smallexample
+
+The supported @samp{lang}s are @samp{C}, @samp{C++}, and @samp{Java}. 
+The linker will iterate over the list of symbols at the link time and
+demangle them according to @samp{lang} before matching them to the
+patterns specified in @samp{version-script-commands}.
+
 @node Expressions
 @section Expressions in Linker Scripts
 @cindex expressions