Re: What I suspect

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
08 Dec 1999 00:29:07 -0800


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> So I still think pre-linking should be perfectly fine =without= checking
> weak symbols like Davem suggested.

This all is far worse than what can be achieved by correctly using the
possibilities ELF provides. Without stretching the standard. I'm
working on it. And once this is done preloading adds a several penalty.

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