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Re: gcj, shared libraries, and -Bsymbolic
Jakub Jelinek writes:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:43:55PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > The C semantics of the dynamic linker don't play well with Java: when
> > a method in a shared library accesses some locally defined object it
> > wants the local copy, not some other object with the same name that
> > happens to be in a shared library earlier in the search path.
> > However, the semantics we require correspond quite nicely with the the
> > GNU linker option -Bsymbolic.
>
> On the other side, -Bsymbolic doesn't work at all together with C++
> semantics. So if you link both Java and C++ code into a shared library
> and link with -Bsymbolic, C++ code will often misbehave.
Go on, give me a clue. I'm not aware of the problem you describe.
Andrew.