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Re: glibc 2.1.95 (5th test release)
- To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.1.95 (5th test release)
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 14 Oct 2000 17:11:20 -0700
- Cc: howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <200010091429.HAA61853@bromo.med.uc.edu><m3hf6m11kh.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com><200010092006.NAA15353@geoffk.org><m3snpzrwmg.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com><200010142052.NAA00690@geoffk.org>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> writes:
> With this patch, weak symbols should work everywhere on ppc except for
> _non-pic_ code in applications (where they never worked properly
> anyway, and I can't see any easy way to make them work).
Weak symbols *cannot* work anywhere in non-PIC code. This is a fact
everybody can derive from the ELF spec. Don't worry about this.
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