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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>,
	Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>,
		"Ansari, Zia" <zia.ansari@intel.com>,
	GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
		GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Add STB_GNU_SECONDARY
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOo=uDTG3_EWWqQmYpgpNouCD5e+SK-Msu_yCDr4yAnaWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mcrsjfx6h9t.fsf@dhcp-172-18-216-180.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In our usage, the backup definition may not be at the end of
>> command line since it may reference library symbols.
>
> You could write out the backup function you need under a different name.
> Then have the backup symbol at the end of the link call the new name of
> the backup function.

isn't it replacing one backup with another backup?

> I agree that this kind of approach is less convenient, but this doesn't
> seem like a persuasive choice for one of the two remaining OS-dependent
> symbol binding numbers.  Perhaps you should try to sell this idea to the
> ELF ABI, the generic space has seven available numbers.
>

We are looking for a solution to have the backup definition
which can be overridden by a normal definition from an archive
or shared object.  Weak symbol doesn't work here.  I will ask
in the gABI group.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-21  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-20 19:47 H.J. Lu
2012-04-20 19:51 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-20 20:11   ` H.J. Lu
2012-04-20 20:27     ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-20 20:36       ` H.J. Lu
2012-04-20 22:55     ` Petr Baudis
2012-04-20 23:30       ` H.J. Lu
2012-04-20 20:56 ` Joern Rennecke
2012-04-20 21:20   ` H.J. Lu
2012-04-20 22:11     ` Cary Coutant
2012-04-20 22:48       ` H.J. Lu
2012-04-20 22:49         ` H.J. Lu
2012-04-20 22:59         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-04-20 23:36           ` H.J. Lu
2012-04-20 23:40             ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-04-20 23:51               ` H.J. Lu
2012-04-21  0:49                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-04-21  1:04                   ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2012-04-21  1:07                     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-04-21  1:09     ` Joern Rennecke
2012-04-21 13:53       ` H.J. Lu
2012-04-21 19:01         ` Joern Rennecke
2012-04-23 18:12           ` H.J. Lu

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