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Re: weak and strong aliases for global data fail

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: "Peter S. Mazinger" <ps dot m at gmx dot net>
Cc: "Peter S. Mazinger" <mps at bridge dot intra>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 23:43:51 +0930
Subject: Re: weak and strong aliases for global data fail
References: <20060523052712.GC12196@bubble.grove.modra.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0605241443230.26077-100000@lnx.bridge.intra>

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:16:26PM +0200, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> I have only renamed the internally 
> used opt* to __opt* and provided a weak resp. strong alias to the 
> externally visible version

Symbol aliases in ELF shared libs don't work as you think they should.
This is not a bug in the compiler, linker, or ld.so.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

References:
- Re: weak and strong aliases for global data fail
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: weak and strong aliases for global data fail
  - From: Peter S. Mazinger

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