* Re: FW: libtool devel package still dll crippled.
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@ 2002-04-21 11:16 ` Christopher Faylor
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From: Christopher Faylor @ 2002-04-21 11:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:15:25PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>>ld checks the symbols in the shared libs during compile time to see if
>>>it can resolve all symbols and appearantly also detects duplicated
>>>symbols. On Linux it is not necassery impossible to have two libs that
>>>define the same symbols. E.g. this feature can be used to override
>>>the malloc implementation of libc. Of course when this happens
>>>inadvertently it can lead to unexpected behaviour/crashes. ELF (The
>>>linking format used on Linux) has rather complex rules for determining
>>>which symbol should be used if it is defined multiple times. It also
>>>distinguishes between weak and strong symbols. It might be that it is
>>>only possible to override weak-symbols and that multiple strong-symbols
>>>result in link-errors.
>>
>>Does the cygwin ld has some similar rules ?
>>
>Is nobody on this list, who can give an answer to this question ?
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