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Re: Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26 [aka should we revert the fix for 65248]
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 16:06:02 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26 [aka should we revert the fix for 65248]
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Hi,
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Richard Biener wrote:
> So with all this it sounds that current protected visibility is just
> broken and we should forgo with it, making it equal to default
> visibility?
Like how? You mean in GCC regarding protected as default visibility? No,
that's just throwing out the baby with the water. We should make
protected do what it was intended to do and accept that not all invariants
that are true for default visible symbols are also true for protected
symbols, possibly by ...
> At least I couldn't decipher a solution that solves all of the issues
> with protected visibility apart from trying to error at link-time (or
> runtime?) for the cases that are tricky (impossible?) to solve.
... this.
Ciao,
Michael.