Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 18:30:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: kushn@mail.kar.net Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: XFree86 & elf Message-ID: <199806081830.LAA12716@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980608131401.6603C-100000@kushnir.kiev.ua> from "Vladimir Kushnir" at Jun 8, 98 01:45:23 pm
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> BTW, I'm probably just stupid, but would please some kind soul explain 2 > things: > i) Do we need underscore for elf dlsym? 'Cause I (just out of ignorance) > commented out #define PREPEND_UNDERSCORE in > xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Dl.c (now it's init_module > instead of _init_module and so on) - and X loads modules without > complaint, ELF changes the semantics of compiled symbols. The "_" namespace is reserved for implementation, so user defined symbols don't get a prepended underscore. This is, IMO, an error on the order of "any file without a leading / is assumed to be in the root directory", but that's the ABI definition for System V (ELF itself doesn't make this requirement, actually). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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