Re: [PATCH] Reduce the statically linked startup code [BZ #23323]

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 08/08/2018 05:56 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 08/08/18 15:48, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > This is the patch rebased for glibc 2.29.
> >
> > Should we make more far-reaching changes and remove the arguments 
> > which are now zero?
>
> there might be code that calls __libc_start_main directly
> (e.g. the cgo runtime ?), if removing args breaks something
> then i'd keep them (i don't know if it does).

If that's a concern, we should rename the symbol as well.

I think cgo mentions it only in the documentation, quoting Go code which 
has been auto-generated from the underlying executable link.

Thanks,
Florian