On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:10:55PM +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote: > Which means that in such case there's no reason to have those symbols weak, > and having them weak means that the symbol lookup in ld.so for them will be > more expensive (because it has to search all libraries for a non-weak symbol > only to find out there's obviously no such thing).
That's not right. At least glibc's ld.so has not done this by default in years; only if you export LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK=1. Weak defs are treated exactly the same as strong defs during dynamic lookup, by default. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
