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Re: Your patch on 2001-01-26 is bad
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:02:00PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Because you want to have ld.so being involved, maybe even in every use
> of the symbol? Just imagine the ld.so profiling or similar
> techniques. If you want to resolve it completely locally use a linker
> map file to declare it.
Using a linker map file doesn't have the same effect. It will either
be overridable, or it won't be visible. Map files emulate either
STV_DEFAULT or STV_HIDDEN, and nothing else.
I don't particularly care about ld.so profiling. If you want to do
that, you can't be using visibility at all.
r~