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Re: Problems with symbols from libc_nonshared (fwd)
- To: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
- Subject: Re: Problems with symbols from libc_nonshared (fwd)
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: 30 Mar 1999 02:22:11 +0200
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- References: <199903292352.SAA17140@baalperazim.frob.com>
Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
|> > The standard guarantees that function pointers are unique. Forcing stat
|> > et.al to be local would violate this, in case a shared library returns a
|> > pointer to one of them.
|>
|> Then what would violate the standards would be returning such an address
|> from a libc function. If this is not done, it is not a problem.
libc does not have this problem, but we are talking about other shared
libraries. You'll never know what they will do.
Andreas.