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Re: Will glibc support optional STT_COMMON lookup?


On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:53:52AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> If I am not mistaken, glibc treates STT_COMMON the same as STT_OBJECT.

Right.

> That means the optional STT_COMMON lookup isn't supported. There
> is no point to generate STT_COMMON in executable and shared library.

Yep.  I don't think it would be a good idea to slow down the dynamic
lookup for this, especially if STT_COMMON would be generated for all
common vars rather than only when asked for it by some new attribute.
That would throw us back to the LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK=1 times.

	Jakub


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