On 21 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote: > This is a proposal (including patches) for a GNU extension to the ELF > executable format that adds a flag that causes the dynamic loader to > start searching for symbols referenced by modules with the flag set from > the module itself and its immediate dependencies. If the symbol is not > found in this way, the dynamic linker continues the search as usual. > > This extension would be useful to allow to load in the same address > space multiple libraries that define identical symbols, that would be > used by different modules possibly unaware of each other's use of such > symbols.
Hmm, what if two functions which get imported from different versions of the same library operate on a static (private to the library) variable that is needed for a proper operation for some reason? You'd better rebuild the sources to use a single version of each library instead. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP key available +
