Re: Your patch on 2001-01-26 is bad

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:02:00PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Because you want to have ld.so being involved, maybe even in every use
> of the symbol?  Just imagine the ld.so profiling or similar
> techniques.  If you want to resolve it completely locally use a linker
> map file to declare it.

Using a linker map file doesn't have the same effect.  It will either
be overridable, or it won't be visible.  Map files emulate either
STV_DEFAULT or STV_HIDDEN, and nothing else.

I don't particularly care about ld.so profiling.  If you want to do
that, you can't be using visibility at all.


r~