Documenting the (dynamic) linking rules for symbol versioning

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hi Carlos,

On 05/05/2017 09:51 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 04/19/2017 11:07 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> The documentation around symbol versioning as used by the glibc dynamic
>> linker (DL) is currently rather weak, and I'd like to add some pieces to
>> various man pages (ld.so(8), dlsym(3), and possibly others) to improve
>> this situation. Before that though, I'd rather like to check my
>> understanding of the rules.
> 
> This is great!
> 
> Can I make one simple request?
> 
> Please post all of your test case and we help you get them checked into
> glibc's regression testsuite so we don't change any of the behaviour you
> have documented without noticing it.
> 
> I'd like us to agree to ensure we cover everything you mention in a
> regression test.

I'm happy to help here, bug do not have a CLA, and do not plan
to get one. But, I can place whatever code might be useful under
a permissive license (assuming that works for you).

Cheers,

Michael



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