Relocatable Objects

The previous sections have described how version information can be recorded within dynamic objects. Relocatable objects can maintain versioning information in a similar manner. However, subtle differences exist regarding how this information is used.

Any version definitions supplied to the link-edit of a relocatable object are recorded in the object. These definitions follow the same format as version definitions recorded in dynamic objects. However, by default, symbol reduction is not carried out on the relocatable object being created. Symbol reductions that are defined by the versioning information are applied to the relocatable object when the object is used to create a dynamic object.

In addition, any version definition found in a relocatable object is propagated to the dynamic object. For an example of version processing in relocatable objects, see Reducing Symbol Scope.

Symbol reduction that is implied by a version definition can be applied to a relocatable object by using the link-editors -B reduce option.