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Re: RFC: Add STB_GNU_SECONDARY
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> Please provide an example that illustrates why you think you need this.
>
Currently we use weak undefined symbol, foo, to do
if (&foo != 0)
foo is defined.
else
foo isn't defined.
We want is to define foo as a secondary symbol so that
we can always use foo without checking. If there is a primary
one in a .o file and .so file, we will get the primary one,
otherwise, we will use the secondary one.
--
H.J.