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Re: gcj, shared libraries, and -Bsymbolic
Tom Tromey wrote:
rth> What you actually want is (at least for -findirect-dispatch) is to
rth> not export any symbols whatsoever. And to do so as simply as not
rth> marking the symbols TREE_PUBLIC in the front end.
Andrew> I know. However, at present this breaks CNI.
I was thinking about this yesterday and it occurred to me that CNI is
already broken with BC. So I think we could make this change now
without making things worse... assuming we have the time to do it.
Certainly, making all Java symbols local is the best solution - but IMO
we must fix CNI before we can do that.
Although calls made from CNI arn't yet implemented in the "binary
compatible" way, CNI isn't completely broken - it still works using the
old-style linkage. However, if we dropped TREE_PUBLIC on symbols then
CNI would not work at all because CNI code is always in a different
translation unit to the corresponding Java class.
CNI is still useful with the BC-ABI even in its "broken" state, provided
CNI calls are used only within a given binary. Also, making this change
will prevent us from compiling libgcj with the BC-ABI.
Regards
Bryce