RFC: -Bsymbolic, hidden and protected

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Thu Mar 3 12:49:00 GMT 2005


On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:14:59PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Protected visibility has almost everything, but requires
> special handling at run-time.
> 
> I was wondering if we could allow version script to overwrite
> hidden symbols. That is if a symbol is global in version script, we
> export it even if it is marked hidden. It may improve run-time
> performance.

How is this going to be different from using protected symbols?

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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