Forwarding to the correct mailing list. cgf
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:15:25PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: >>>ld checks the symbols in the shared libs during compile time to see if >>>it can resolve all symbols and appearantly also detects duplicated >>>symbols. On Linux it is not necassery impossible to have two libs that >>>define the same symbols. E.g. this feature can be used to override >>>the malloc implementation of libc. Of course when this happens >>>inadvertently it can lead to unexpected behaviour/crashes. ELF (The >>>linking format used on Linux) has rather complex rules for determining >>>which symbol should be used if it is defined multiple times. It also >>>distinguishes between weak and strong symbols. It might be that it is >>>only possible to override weak-symbols and that multiple strong-symbols >>>result in link-errors. >> >>Does the cygwin ld has some similar rules ? >> >Is nobody on this list, who can give an answer to this question ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
