[PATCH] Export stack_used as __stack_used
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Jun 21 09:15:00 GMT 2016
On 06/20/2016 11:04 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Could we export a single symbol which is a struct and contains all the
>> data we need? Then the impact on dynamic symbol table size would be
>> minimal.
>
> That would raise the issue of compatibility. Probing each symbol
> separately is much easier than trying to extend the struct. What
> exactly _is_ the impact of making the dynamic symtab a few entries
> bigger?
Does compatibility really matter? I thought you need exactly matching
libpthread and libthread_db versions anyway. I suppose we could even
compile the offsets into libthread_db.
I assume that for compatibility across multiple versions, we will need
something like Infinity.
Thanks,
Florian
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