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Re: PATCH: Add STO_COPY

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:57:20PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> H. J. Lu wrote:
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> > There is one test in glibc which is currently disabled because of this
> > bug.
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> That's artifically created code.  Nobody with a falfway sane mind would
> use protected symbols.  They don't make sense in the context we are
> working had.  I have no problem whatsoever with outlawing them.
> 

Can you be more specific? Are you saying glibc won't support protected
symbols in general or glibc won't support protected symbols with copy
relocation. I have no problems to disallow protected symbols which may
introduce copy relocation. But I don't think glibc show disallow
protected symbols.


H.J.
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