[RTEMS Project] #3527: RTL Unresolved Symbols from common section on i386/pc686

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#3527: RTL Unresolved Symbols from common section on i386/pc686
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  Reporter:  Joseph Hickey  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect         |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:
 Component:  lib/dl         |    Version:  4.11
  Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:
Blocked By:                 |   Blocking:
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 By default GCC puts uninitialized global variables into a common section
 in the ELF file.  When attempting to load the resulting ELF file at
 runtime using `dlopen()`, these global symbols are not resolved as
 expected.

 The RTL reports unresolved symbols, and runtime code that take the address
 of the global get `NULL` instead.

 This is reproducible using the libtests/dl01 example by adding a global
 variable to the module code.  I will attach a patch that replicates the
 issue.

 Test platform is QEMU using pc686 BSP, RTEMS source version 4.11.3 (latest
 on 4.11 git branch as of this writing)

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