[Patch] Fix cycle detection and initialization order in dynamic loader

Marek Polacek polacek@redhat.com
Wed Jun 13 17:54:00 GMT 2012


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 01:07:07PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> nice work.  so by going to uint16_t, the new ldso limit is 65536 rather than 
> 127 ?  should we add a pathological assert when that limit is hit ?

I'm not sure, I'd say that would be quite paranoid.

> is it possible to add the tests to the tree to keep things from regressing ?  
> seems like a corner case that is easy to break again :(.

Indeed, that would be nice, but it might not be the easiest thing to
do...

	Marek



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