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Re: shared lib problem with atexit
Jakub Jelinek writes:
> > # gcc -shared -O -Wall low.c -o liblow.so
> ^^^ what gcc is this?
It's a gcc-2.95.3. The latest release approved by the GCC steering
committee.
> The issue is that those gcc's referenced atexit (as workaround for
> some libc 5 bugs I think) in crtendS.o (and as this is always after
> -lc, atexit.oS from libc_nonshared.a simply was not brought in).
Yes, I noticed that too. But if the dynamic linker can cope with the
situation that 'liblow.so' wants 'atexit' and libc.so.6 offers only
'atexit@GLIBC_2.0', then why does ld not do the same?
> If it is not gcc 2.95.4 CVS, gcc-2.96-RH of recent vintage, gcc-3_0-branch
> of recent vintage or recent gcc CVS head, then it will not work as you
> describe on ia32.
> I'd say it is a user bug not to use one of the above compilers with
> glibc 2.2.3.
Oh well, I hadn't read the glibc-2.2.3 announcement carefully enough :-(
Bruno