Your patch on 2001-01-26 is bad

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Tue Feb 6 22:02:00 GMT 2001


Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

>   STV_PROTECTED: Resolved locally, but included in the
> 		dynamic symbol table.
> 
> That we _know_ this will be resolved locally implies that
> we can optimize things at link time.  Why bother leaving
> this for the loader?

Because you want to have ld.so being involved, maybe even in every use
of the symbol?  Just imagine the ld.so profiling or similar
techniques.  If you want to resolve it completely locally use a linker
map file to declare it.

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