Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:29:27AM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 at 17:11:21 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>> >> > Not necessarily. -fPIC and -fPIE force calls to global functions
>> >> > defined in the same translation unit to go through the PLT. They
>> >> > aren't translated to direct IP-relative calls. For -fPIC, this is
>> >> > required by the ELF specification (no kidding, this might seem strange
>> >> > today).
>> >>
>> >> Could we add a gcc flag and be non conformant ? I suppose it is only
>> >> for using LD_PRELOAD.
>> >
>> > -Bsymbolic, I think? GLib uses this to speed up internal calls, instead of
>> > the hacks with functions-having-two-names that it used to use.
>> >
>> > With either solution, if you want to LD_PRELOAD (as for GLib's refdbg tool)
>> > you have to have a second copy of GLib compiled to not do that, like
>> > libglib2.0-refdbg in Debian.
>>
>> Unbuntu use Bsymbolic by default and they are only a few faillure.
>> Time to get this in debian too ?
>
> It would break overriding of weak symbols, would it not?
Yes it will break but at least unbuntu have sorted this kind of bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxfont/+bug/230460
And weak symbols are pretty rare in the tree.
But I tend to agree that a Bsymbolic-nonweak will be the best see for
instance an old patch
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/binutils/2005-07/msg00104.html that tend to
reduce ooo relocation by 20%
Bastien
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
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