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Re: Problems with symbols from libc_nonshared (fwd)
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Subject: Re: Problems with symbols from libc_nonshared (fwd)
- From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:52:25 -0500
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
> The standard guarantees that function pointers are unique. Forcing stat
> et.al to be local would violate this, in case a shared library returns a
> pointer to one of them.
Then what would violate the standards would be returning such an address
from a libc function. If this is not done, it is not a problem.