Re: Define __start/__stop symbols when there is only a dynamic def

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> [hjl@gnu-6 orphan-4]$ make
>> cc -g   -c -o app.o app.c
>> cc -B./ -o app app.o liborphan.so -ldl -Wl,-R,.
>> ./app
>> [hjl@gnu-6 orphan-4]$
>>
>> It looks good to me.  What am I missing?
>
> You missed that my testcase was the readelf output, not the runtime
> behaviour.  I didn't bother to transform it into a runtime
> testcase, the problem is obvious from readelf.  (You'd need dlsym to make
> this into a runtime testcase, because the whole point of the excercise is
> that app itself doesn't contain any explicit references to these symbols
> but still must contain definition of them)

We need a run-time testcase.  Can you provide a run-time testcase?

Thanks.


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H.J.