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Re: PATCH: Don't warn defintion overrides indirect versioned symbol
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 09:42:18PM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:
>
> It should warn because for everything except the very special libgcc_s vs.
> glibc case the user is warned about a real problem. In the normal case if a
> symbol is moved, you simply reversion it and want to be warned if you forget
> that.
>
> Contrary to your patch, I would rather strengthen the warning, cause it really
> should warn too if both symbols are default non-weak symbols with the same
> version, not warning about that caused the libgcc_s vs. glibc mess in the
> first place.
>
There is nothing wrong to have 2 different DSOes defining the same
symbol. We never warn about it nor should.
H.J.