https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23460
--- Comment #11 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> --- (In reply to Evangelos Foutras from comment #10) Hi Evangelos, > Is it possible to avoid calling dlclose() on the plugin handle? I have to say that I am not really liking this idea... > I'm asking > because the LLVM gold plugin (LLVMgold.so) will throw the following error > when loaded more than once: > > > CommandLine Error: Option 'asm-instrumentation' registered more than > once! Which seems correct to me. Why would you want to load a plugin more than once ? The most likely reason it seems to me is if the build system is quite complicated and there are multiple places where the plugin command line option could be enabled. If this is the case, wouldn't it make more sense for the tool (llvm, gcc, ld, etc) to accumulate plugin options and eliminate duplicates ? > In any case, I thought I'd also ask here if it might make sense to remove > dlclose() from bfd's plugin loader. I just do not like the idea of not tidying up after ourselves. Mind you it is only linker plugins that call dlclose. Plugins for other tools (eg ar, nm, etc) do not bother with the call. Plus the linker only calls dlclose when it is closing *all* plugins as part of its exit sequence. So I am not sure if there really is a problem (for the binutils) here. Cheers Nick -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
