Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@xxxxxxxx> writes: > * Patrick Horgan <phorgan1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It's the order that they're seen by the linker. Once the symbols are >> resolved they aren't looked for anymore, so your malloc.o would resolve >> malloc() and when glibc is looked at later, the linker would never look >> for malloc in there since it's already resolved. > > What happens to references to malloc() from libc or other > libraries ? Do they also get the own symbol ? If you mean: do references to malloc from libc get resolved to the definition of malloc seen earlier, then the answer, at least on ELF based systems like GNU/Linux, is yes. Ian
