[linuxsh-dev] Re: __fpscr_values

[Daniel J. <dr...@fa...>]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:18:00AM +0900, kaz Kojima wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <dr...@fa...> wrote:
> >> But some shared libraries can be made without libc, can't be?
> >> -z defs issue remains for them.
> > 
> > They shouldn't be; it causes all sorts of problems with for instance
> > prelinking.
> 
> I agree with you, though my point is can/cannot.

I want to add that moving it to libc wouldn't hurt that case: they'd
get a unique copy when loaded.

> >> Of course, we can treat them as the exceptions, but it seems to me
> >> it's not essentially different with the current crt1.o implementation.
> > 
> > I'd have to think about it... I think it makes more sense in libc. 
> 
> I have no strong sense about where it is placed if it's unique.
> Once Niibe-san proposed libfpscr.so-like which is an "always linked"
> shared library as an another possibility.

Do you mind if I ask libc-alpha for opinions?  Roland, Jakub, et al.
are a lot more on top of this than I am.  I can just force -z nodefs
for now, but I'm not happy with that as a solution.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer