On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:31:06PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 03 décembre 2010 à 12:28 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > But I do agree that a -Bsymbolic default is dangerous. Upstream may want > > to use them at their will, but this shouldn't be enforced by the > > toolchain. > > OTOH -Bsymbolic should really be mandatory for loadable shared objects, > like plugins. I don’t know how else we could enforce that.
Very difficult, given that you can dlopen any shared object. Not that all libraries support it very well; GObject-based libraries are awful for example, due to leaking lots of global resources (GQuarks, type unregistration etc.) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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