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Re: versioning of _Unwind_*() symbols
>>>>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:28:02 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:
HJ> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:40:25PM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote:
>> This seems to match with Mark's suggestion of putting the functions back
>> in libgcc_s.so to maintain backwards compatibility.
HJ> It is a very tricky thing to do with the current Linux dynamic linker.
HJ> Those removed functions should be restored. The question is where
HJ> they come from. We can't use the old definiton since we want to use
HJ> the ones in libunwind. In glibc, we do
HJ> foo ()
HJ> {
HJ> h = dlopen (libgcc)
HJ> fn = dlsym (h, "foo");
HJ> (*fn) ...
HJ> }
HJ> so that we can define foo in glibc as a wrapper for foo in libgcc.
HJ> Maybe we can do the same for libgcc.
I didn't think libgcc could/should rely on dlopen()?
But in any case, for libgcc_s.so, it's sufficient to have a dependency
on libunwind.so. The dynamic linker will then take care of loading
libunwind.so before loading libgcc_s.so.
--david