Q re: ld program

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:02:22PM -0700, Dennis Newbold wrote:
> Dear Mr. Lu,
> 
>      I am directing my question to you because you are listed as the
> binutils maintainer for IX86 architecture machines in the
> binutils/MAINTAINERS file of the current binutils source package.
> If you know of another person more able to answer this question, please
> feel free to forward it to him / her.  Also, if you know of an appropriate
> newsgroup or mailing list that may be helpful, please let me know.
> 
> In the online documentation for ld, found at the www.gnu.org website,
> is a description of:
> 
>    --auxiliary <name> and
>    --filter <name>
> 
> The description is (to me at least) somewhat abstract and confusing,
> but I get the impression that the facility it describes could be
> very powerful and useful if I only understood it better.  With respect
> to these two command line options, I have two questions:

It is more a C library issue and an ld issue. I forwarded your email
to the glibc list.

> 
>   1. do you know of, or can you provide a small example of how each
>      could be used?

There are some tests in glibc.

> 
>   2. I assume that the <name> field refers to a shared library file's
>      soname, rather than its actual physical name.  Is this correct?

Yes.


H.J.