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Re: Q re: ld program
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Dennis Newbold <dennisn at pe dot net>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:12:25 -0700
- Subject: Re: Q re: ld program
- References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020618155415.24878A-100000@shell2>
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:02:22PM -0700, Dennis Newbold wrote:
> Dear Mr. Lu,
>
> I am directing my question to you because you are listed as the
> binutils maintainer for IX86 architecture machines in the
> binutils/MAINTAINERS file of the current binutils source package.
> If you know of another person more able to answer this question, please
> feel free to forward it to him / her. Also, if you know of an appropriate
> newsgroup or mailing list that may be helpful, please let me know.
>
> In the online documentation for ld, found at the www.gnu.org website,
> is a description of:
>
> --auxiliary <name> and
> --filter <name>
>
> The description is (to me at least) somewhat abstract and confusing,
> but I get the impression that the facility it describes could be
> very powerful and useful if I only understood it better. With respect
> to these two command line options, I have two questions:
It is more a C library issue and an ld issue. I forwarded your email
to the glibc list.
>
> 1. do you know of, or can you provide a small example of how each
> could be used?
There are some tests in glibc.
>
> 2. I assume that the <name> field refers to a shared library file's
> soname, rather than its actual physical name. Is this correct?
Yes.
H.J.