Symbol link order (take 2)

[Mike Hearn <mike at theoretic dot com>]

Hmm, ok, well thanks for those links/explanations. I've been doing some
more reading/talking since then, and have more questions :)

A few months ago there was this thread:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-08/msg00214.html

In which Luca Barbieri proposed a small patch which would allow the
linker order for ELF binaries to be reordered, toggled using a gnu
extension and a new flag, -Blocal.

The thread seemed to die without any decision being made on whether it
would be accepted or not. It seems that is a good compromise, because

a) It solves a nasty problem with seemingly random crashes in the short
to mid term (although of course binaries/libs must be compiled
correctly)

b) It allows upstream vendors to introduce symbol versioning without
breaking anything

and c) the patch appears to be minimally invasive, and is off by
default.

What are the lists thoughts on that?
thanks -mike
 
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Mike Hearn <mike@theoretic.com>