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On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 02:55:51PM +1000, Geoff Keating wrote: > There is no way that a weak symbol defined in an > executable can be overriden by anything else, so there should be no > relocations referring to it. In the weak model prefered by glibc and SGI, sure there is. A strong symbol defined in a shared library will override the weak symbol in the main executable. But this is not the model Sun prefers, since it kills their cute lazy loading scheme. r~
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