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Re: Evolution of ELF symbol management
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/2016 04:29 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 22 2016, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There also configure scripts which do
>>>
>>> extern char whatever();
>>> main () { whatever(); }
>>>
>>> for link testing, without including the appropriate header (perhaps
>>> deliberately). That could be considered broken. I'm not sure.
>>
>> While getting the return type wrong makes it slightly broken, the C
>> standard does support declaring standard functions on your own, as long
>> as you don't need special types.
>
> Yes, that's true. Thanks for the reminder.
As a practical matter, also, Autoconf has done this for decades and no
one has even sketched a design for a replacement; I think we must
assume we will need to support it for the foreseeable future.
zw