> I think this issue started when some of the Go developers questioned > why the kernel needed to provide a very complex interface--parsing an > ELF shared shared library--for very simple functionality--looking up > the address of a magic function. This approach has required special > support not just in Go, but also in the dynamic linker and gdb, and > does not work well for statically linked binaries. The support in gdb > is perhaps a good idea, but elsewhere it does not make sense. > > So why not provide a simple interface? What good would it do now that everyone already supports it? The proposal is 10+ years too late. -andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
