() Daniel J Sebald <daniel.seb...@ieee.org> () Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:35:00 -0500
> I seem to recall a paper several years back that argued against > this approach based on ldso issues. Drat, can't dredge the > details... I tried searching the Internet for such issues, but couldn't find any. What do you recall as being the loader problem? The "extern" part? Or use of a null string for termination? OK, found it. "How to Write Shared Libraries" by Ulrich Drepper, version 4.0, section 2.4.3 "Arrays of Data Pointers". See also the programs in Appendix B. I think the problem is (relatively) high constant ldso overhead for a rarely-used facility. However, i'm not sure if those concerns are relevant in this context. If not, sorry for the noise! -- Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502
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