ld i386 differences 2.10.2 / 2.12

David O'Brien obrien@FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 28 17:37:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:47:54PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> When/if my build of current glibc completes sucessfully, I'll install
> this patch.

Glad to hear it, I just started experiencing it on my Alpha too.
This will go into the 2.12 branch, correct?


> In addition, there's a change to how duplicate warning symbols are
> handled.  Previously, a duplicate would result in a chain of syms
> warning -> warning -> real, which means iterating to reach the real
> sym.  I can't see that allowing duplicates provides any useful purpose,
> so we now just ignore them.

I do not follow.  Today we get:

  /usr/lib/libc.so: warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp()

how will that change?



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