RFC: Add tests for namespace for static linking

[Florian Weimer]

On 11/08/2014 02:49 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> One thing we currently try to ensure manually is that glibc is
> namespace-clean for static linking; that is, if you only use features
> from a particular standard (including the set of features exposed by
> headers given feature test macros such as _DEFAULT_SOURCE that don't
> correspond to any written standard), the library objects brought in by
> the static linker will not define or use (strong) names that are
> reserved to the user in that standard.

Why isn't there a generic, linker-based fix which reuses the tagging we 
have for the dynamic linking case?  Because we want to keep object file 
boundaries?

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security