Re: Recompiling/relinking dependent applications/libraries on DSO change

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 03:20:49PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > Conceptually, this optimization inlines aspects of the called function
> > into the caller, across DSO boundaries.  In particular, as implemented
> > now on ppc64le, the net effect is that the ABI changes if you add a
> > global variable access to a function which previously did not have one.
> >
> > I posted a more technical summary here:
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-07/msg00968.html

Note link to the implementation and rationale is
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2017-06/msg00007.html

Jakub