Pending fixes for all-ABIs builds
Joseph Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Nov 8 23:22:00 GMT 2016
On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:
> But there's one pre-existing issue I've been wondering about for a while
> (along with the s390 maintainers): I don't understand why we have PLT
> references to malloc & friends in ld.so. The malloc implementation there is
> not compliant with the C requirements. Why is it exported, and why do we use
> GOT indirection to call it?
My understanding is that it's meant to be interposable by a user-provided
malloc implementation. See
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00719.html>, item 3.
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Joseph S. Myers
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