On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:32:06AM +0000, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:06:44AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > This is something that's been bothering me for a while, ever since I > > fixed the symbol conflicts in Mozilla with -Bsymbolic. Why do we not > > look in the referencing object first by default? I'm referring to the > > great comments in the symlook_default() function in rtld.c. We only > > check the referencing object first when -Bsymbolic is passed to the > > linker. > > Number of reasons. Programs should be able to override symbols from > dynamim libraries, for instance. C++ exceptions won't work with -Bsymbolic > when exceptions are thrown across shared library boundaries, as thrower > and hander will use their own typeinfo structures and the catch clause > in handler block will simply not recognize the exception, etc.
Even more simple, libc vs. libc_r / libkse / libpthread. Joerg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
