Subject: Re: Text relocations in shared libs
To: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
From: SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/27/2005 18:08:44
>>>>> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:00:39 +0300,
      "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> said:

> Well, ideally we should use version script to only export from libc.so
> (and other shared libs) what's meant to be exported, but that's a
> topic for another thread.

Off topic note:
Sometimes it's difficult to decide what should be exported.
For example, someone might think we shouldn't export "_open",
but some HPC frameworks (e.g. checkpointing package) need to
override "_open" and other internal entry points of system calls.
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soda