Re: [Valgrind-developers] valgrind/coregrind

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Tom Hughes wrote:

> > I guess V's libpthread.so isn't overriding the statically linked system
> > one.
>
> Well it won't - if you're statically linked against libpthread then
> the dynamic linker won't try and load the dynamic version because it
> won't be listed as a dependency and all the calls to the functions in
> it will have been resolved anyway.
>
> I wasn't sure it would work even without valgrind because of the way
> libpthread normally uses dynamic linker tricks to override functions
> in the main C library but I guess there must be weak symbol tricks or
> something to make it work in static links.

Could V use its interception mechanism here?  Likewise for malloc() et al
for statically linked binaries?

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