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Re: [PATCH] attribute((visibility(...))) for ld.so

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Cc: Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: 28 Feb 2002 14:43:20 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] __attribute__((visibility(...))) for ld.so
References: <20020228203333.E2204@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> This patch makes ld.so on ia32 smaller by another 1KB and on ia64 by 1.5KB
> by killing some unnecessary memory dereferences.

Very cool.  The gcc changes as well.  It removes another 1-2% in
startup time.  The patch is in, thanks.

Now we should do the same thing for non-static variables which are not
exported from libc.so and the other DSOs.

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