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Re: Problems with symbols from libc_nonshared (fwd)


> 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.


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