Re: Recompiling/relinking dependent applications/libraries on DSO change

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On 07/28/2017 03:20 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> I think it is seriously flawed optimization that should be at least turned
> off by default.  If people are willing to do this mess on ppc64le for some
> libraries, they should request it explicitly, but we certainly shouldn't
> make the implementation details part of exported ABI for all shared
> libraries.  Then the ABI depends even on compiler flags used to compile the
> routines etc., you recompile with -O0 and suddenly you've changed ABI.
> Furthermore, how does it work with symbol interposition?  Say if malloc
> happened to not clobber/use r2 and does not use r12, you suddenly couldn't
> use ElectricFence or valgrind or AddressSanitizer where the implementation
> would need to do that.

All the things you list are potentially broken.  As I said, it's not
worth discussing this.  It's not supportable.

I don't even want to ship this as an optional feature.

Thanks,
Florian
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