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Re: RFC: -Bsymbolic, hidden and protected
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:19:13 +1030
- Subject: Re: RFC: -Bsymbolic, hidden and protected
- References: <20050303041459.GA31146@lucon.org>
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:14:59PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Protected visibility has almost everything, but requires
> special handling at run-time.
>
> I was wondering if we could allow version script to overwrite
> hidden symbols. That is if a symbol is global in version script, we
> export it even if it is marked hidden. It may improve run-time
> performance.
How is this going to be different from using protected symbols?
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre