From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM>
To: mark@codesourcery.com (Mark Mitchell)
Cc: nathan@codesourcery.com (Nathan Sidwell),
Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com (Franz Sirl),
hubbard@ilm.com (hubbard@ilm.com), jyost@ilm.com (jyost@ilm.com),
kainz@ilm.com (kainz@ilm.com), bramsh@acm.org (bramsh@acm.org),
gcc@gcc.gnu.org (gcc@gcc.gnu.org)
Subject: Re: GCC 3.0.3: Bugs to Fix
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 09:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112031740.JAA23013@atrus.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53500000.1007400098@gandalf.codesourcery.com> from "Mark Mitchell" at Dec 03, 2001 09:21:38 AM
Franz Sirl wrote:
> >> What about PR3993? Another KDE2 blocking bug...
<nathan@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > Is there a reason that dlopen ("foo", RTLD_NOW | RTLD_GLOBAL)
> > is unacceptable?
> >
> > The ABI was designed on the assumption that it is possible at link
> > or load time to collapse objects with the same name to a single address,
> > and thus use address comparisons to determine equality. Loading without
> > RTLD_GLOBAL break that.
Mark Mitchell:
> When the ABI was designed, the committee made a conscious decision not
> to support any kind of dynamic linking that did not merge names. I do
> not think we should revisit this at this point.
>
> Therefore, if that is what this bug concerns, the bug should simply
> be closed with a note explaining the issue. For bonus points, an
> entry should be added to the FAQ.
But someone claimed that this problem doesn't exist in the 3.1 branch.
So how can that be right, if this is right? Or am I confused again?
Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-03 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-22 0:08 Mark Mitchell
2001-11-22 0:47 ` Richard Henderson
2001-11-22 5:37 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-11-29 17:10 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-11-29 15:13 ` Richard Henderson
2001-11-22 16:00 ` Nathan Sidwell
2001-11-30 1:40 ` Nathan Sidwell
2001-11-23 16:49 ` Franz Sirl
2001-11-30 14:23 ` Franz Sirl
2001-12-03 1:57 ` Nathan Sidwell
2001-12-03 3:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-12-03 3:37 ` Nathan Sidwell
2001-12-03 9:27 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-12-03 9:40 ` Joe Buck [this message]
2001-12-03 9:46 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-12-03 12:04 ` Florian Kainz
2001-12-03 12:06 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-12-04 0:51 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-12-04 0:49 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-12-03 8:49 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-12-07 12:24 ` Franz Sirl
2001-11-29 13:58 ` Mark Mitchell
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