Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:52:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FW: libtool devel package still dll crippled. Message-ID: <20020421175242.GA1121@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com References: <005e01c1e774$2dab05d0$651c440a@BRAMSCHE> <005901c1e958$207ecfa0$651c440a@BRAMSCHE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005901c1e958$207ecfa0$651c440a@BRAMSCHE> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i 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/