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Re: Fixing namespace issues for variables
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:18:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: Fixing namespace issues for variables
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On 10/23/2015 02:13 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> For real global variables, this isn't pretty, but I think it is
>> acceptable (if the ELF specifics work out, including size changes, which
>
> signgam is an int; there's no reason for its size to change.
I was worried about a conflicting size for an interposed definition in
the main program. This concern applies to an alias-based solution as
well. I simply don't know if this something to worry about due to my
lack of ELF knowledge.
Florian