Hmmm...I'll ask the Mellanox folks to fix that, but it will have to be for 
1.8.1 as we have to release 1.8.0 today for the upstream packagers. I expect 
1.8.1 will go out in the next 1-2 months based on prior experience (we always 
get a bunch of corrections after initial stable release as more people pick 
those up).


On Mar 31, 2014, at 1:14 AM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wes...@tu-dresden.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> while working on support for OpenShmem in our next Score-P measurement [1] 
> release, we noticed that the liboshmem.so library from Open MPI does not mark 
> the symbols as weak as one would expect. Here is an output of liboshmem.so on 
> my 64bit ubuntu system. Lets try shmem_init:
> 
> $ readelf -W --dyn-syms  liboshmem.so.1.0.0 |grep 'shmem_init$'
>  1098: 000000000001dac2   141 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 shmem_init
>  1228: 000000000001c73a   236 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 oshmem_shmem_init
> 
> Oh, no pshmem_init. Maybe missing, but its legacy anyway. Lets try 
> shmem_broadcast:
> 
> $ readelf -W --dyn-syms  liboshmem.so.1.0.0 |grep 'shmem_broadcast$'
>   555: 000000000002769a    92 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 pshmem_broadcast
>   577: 000000000001ed82    92 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 shmem_broadcast
> 
> Ok, we see the pshmem_broadcast and the shmem_broadcast symbol, but the 
> latter is not WEAK. Btw, this function is not in the standard. Thus (finally) 
> take a symbol from the standard:
> 
> $ readelf -W --dyn-syms  liboshmem.so.1.0.0 |grep 'shmem_barrier$'
>   511: 000000000001d47e    24 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 oshmem_shmem_barrier
>   525: 000000000001f250   217 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 shmem_barrier
>  1099: 0000000000027b68   217 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 pshmem_barrier
> 
> Again, no WEAK for shmem_barrier.
> 
> For reference, the output for MPI_Init:
> 
> $ readelf -W --dyn-syms  libmpi.so.1.4.0 |grep 'MPI_Init$'
>  1383: 00000000000841ff   484 FUNC    WEAK   DEFAULT   11 MPI_Init
>  2051: 00000000000841ff   484 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 PMPI_Init
> 
> HTH,
> Bert
> 
> [1] http://www.vi-hps.org/projects/score-p
> 
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