On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:57:48PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 05:34:05PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:I just wondered: is it possible to reverse/disable the effects of -Bsymbolic-functions if LD_PRELOAD is set? Or is it too late already and some information was definitely lost?If it does the same thing as -Bsymbolic, but only for functions, it resolved all the relocations already and can only call functions internally in the library.
According to ld(1): -Bsymbolic-functionsWhen creating a shared library, bind references to global function symbols to the definition within the shared library, if any. This option is only meaningful on ELF platforms which support shared libraries.
I also have to wonder that if we have something like this as default, why -Bsymbolic-functions would be a good default, and not -Bsymbolic.
This is not a sensible default for libc6, libstdc++6, or the standard library for any other programming language. libc6 is overridden by all means of LD_PRELOAD functions. Examples I can think of off the top of my head are zzuf, electric-fence, valgrind, and fakeroot. People like to override the standard libraries to provide useful functionality, and we shouldn't break this. Also note that there are symbols that are present in both libc.so.6 and libpthread.so.0, and that using -Bsymbolic-functions would probably break libc thread safety.
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