[PATCH] Don't check ABI for _nl_default_dirname
Andreas Schwab
schwab@linux-m68k.org
Sun Dec 9 08:21:00 GMT 2012
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> writes:
> The only way in C to know the size of a extern symbol is to hardcode
> the size in a header declaration. But:
> - there is no header for _nl_default_dirname
> - even if there was the size in the header would not change because
> the size is already compiled into the program
The size is copied into the program by the COPY relocation.
Andreas.
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