On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:19:43AM -0400, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote: > > I need to declare a symbol which is weaker in the executable than in any > external static or dynamic library. > > In other words, the executable provides some fallback function > implementation (in my example, for "write"). But if the linker or > dynamic linker resolves it, the symbol definition from an external > library must be used. > The weak symbol is different from the normal one only during creating executable or shared library if it is in a relocatable file. You can't use weak symbol for your purpose. But you can mark your symbol in shared library protected. H.J.
