[PATCH] Further steps towards GL(dl_dynamic_weak) == 0 everywhere
Jakub Jelinek
jakub@redhat.com
Sun Dec 29 05:01:00 GMT 2002
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:37:45AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> But I really think that the LinuxThreads code shouldn't receive that
> much attention. It is not necessary to have cancellation working as in
> nptl to disable the special weak handling in ld.so. If the same ld.so
> is used for nptl and linuxthreads just add a hack which disables the
> correct weak handling for LinuxThreads binaries. Well, if you want to
> continue to do the cancellation adjustment, feel free, but I think it's
> really wasted time.
Having the -lc -lpthread vs. -lpthread -lc solved in
linuxthreads too has the advantage that we can get rid of another bunch of
plt slots in libc. Conditionalizing all the *hidden_proto/*hidden_def's
on NPTL would be ugly.
Jakub
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