On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:23:59PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > LD_PRELOAD would still be able to override it, because by default, ELF > shared libraries use relocations that must be serviced by ld.so. That part is incorrect. A hidden symbol binds at link time; ld.so is never given the chance to resolve anything to it. You end up with relative relocations or fixed PC-relative offsets. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery