Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Thu Jan 14 06:16:34 UTC 2010


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On 01/13/2010 09:05 AM, John Reiser wrote:
> *weak undefined* means "I accept *any* definition, or even *no* definition."
> Both binutils and glibc must fix their errors of insisting on any particular
> symbol version for a *weak undefined* symbol.

No.  At runtime weak has no meaning at.  Not finding a definition for a
weak symbol at runtime is a course for a fatal error.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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