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Re: glibc 2.1.95 (5th test release)


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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