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Re: weak handling

To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Subject: Re: weak handling
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 07 Jun 2000 20:54:29 -0700
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <m3g0qo3m5f.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> <20000607203337.A22146@lucon.org> <20000607203449.B22146@lucon.org>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> > I could be wrong. What will happen to those libc symbols defined in
> > the dynamic linker used for bootstrap? I thought those symbols were
> > weak in ld.so and would be overridden by the strong ones in libc.so.
>
> Also I guess you have to deal with libpthread using a different
> scheme.

No, in both cases.  ld.so comes always after libc in the search path
and libc always comes after libpthread.  Everything just falls into
place.

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References:
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  - From: Ulrich Drepper
- Re: weak handling
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- Re: weak handling
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