Blackfin FDPIC patch 4/N: dl_debug_state
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Mon Oct 9 02:55:21 UTC 2006
On Oct 7, 2006, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 October 2006 15:29, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Oct 4, 2006, Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1 at t-online.de> wrote:
>> > Another piece from Alexandre's original patch; this one changes one of
>> > ld.so's functions to use hidden visibility. I have to admit I'm not
>> > entirely clear on what would happen if we didn't do this.
>>
>> We'd need a global function descriptor for this function, which IIRC
>> triggered issues with relocation bootstrapping.
>>
>> Given that we don't want _dl_debug_state to be overridable (otherwise
>> making it protected doesn't make sense), and I don't see the point of
>> even making it visible, perhaps we just want _dl_debug_state to be
>> hidden itself?
> glibc seems to export the symbol and then create an internal alias for the
> rest of the ldso to refer to ... i think that would work for us as well
Err... Isn't this an exact description of the patch you posted, that
IIRC I proposed more than a year ago?
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