return r.Shared()
	}
	return l.attrShared.Has(l.extIndex(i))
}

// SetAttrShared sets the "shared" property for an external
// symbol (see AttrShared).
func (l *Loader) SetAttrShared(i Sym, v bool) {
	if !l.IsExternal(i) {
		panic(fmt.Sprintf("tried to set shared attr on non-external symbol %d %s", i, l.SymName(i)))
	}
	if v {
		l.attrShared.Set(l.extIndex(i))
	} else {

	// the Go caller is PIC, and cannot use PCrel instructions).
	if (r.Type() == objabi.ElfRelocOffset+objabi.RelocType(elf.R_PPC64_REL24)) || (!ldr.AttrExternal(s) && ldr.AttrShared(s) && !hasPCrel) {
		stubTypeStr = "_tocrel"
		stubType = 1
	} else {
		stubTypeStr = "_notoc"
		stubType = 3
	}
	n := fmt.Sprintf("_pltstub%s.%s", stubTypeStr, ldr.SymName(r.Sym()))

		// internal linking for shared libraries and only create object files when
		// externally linking, I don't think this makes a lot of sense.
		other = int(elf.STV_HIDDEN)
	}
	if ctxt.IsPPC64() && typ == elf.STT_FUNC && ldr.AttrShared(x) {
		// On ppc64 the top three bits of the st_other field indicate how many
		// bytes separate the global and local entry points. For non-PCrel shared
		// symbols this is always 8 bytes except for some special functions.