Re: _GLOBAL__FD_libfoo_so

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Glancing at GCC sources, I gather that symbols matching
>  ^_GLOBAL__F[ID]_.*$
>
> are init/fini functions for shared libraries.  Would it be appropriate

Ugh.

> if libtool skipped these when doing symbol extraction?  On any system,
> when GCC is used, or even with any compiler?  Would the above be the
> most general egrep pattern to match these symbols?
>
> Are there however other symbols we should not extract (so far only
> _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_)?

I don't know, but most likely we will find out when the time comes.

> Thus, OK to apply this patch which fixes the failures (HEAD and
> branch-1-5)?

The patch looks safe to apply to me.

Bob
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