Updated ARM NPTL patch
Joakim Tjernlund
joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Thu Feb 15 13:11:58 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org
> [mailto:uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org] On Behalf Of Carmelo Amoroso
> Sent: 14 February 2007 14:34
> To: Paul Brook
> Cc: uclibc at uclibc.org
> Subject: Re: Updated ARM NPTL patch
>
> On 12/7/06, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > .... snippet.....
> > KNOWN LIMITATIONS
> >
> > This release has some known limitations:
> >
> > - The merge with public uClibc trunk revision r16105 introduced
> > some test suite regressions, as described above.
> >
> > - When linking statically against uClibc, the dlopen
> function does not
> > work properly. The unmodified uClibc trunk has this problem as
> > well, so CodeSourcery does not believe that our NPTL patches are
> > responsible; in fact, we believe dlopen works better with our
> > patches than without.
> >
> > However, many uClibc tests depend on dlopen, so this
> issue makes it
> > difficult to test static linking. It would be a good idea to
> > re-test if statically-linked dlopen is fixed in the future.
> >
> Well, I posted some days ago a proposal for a patch to fix this issue
> (see post
> http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2007-February/017324.html).
> Did you have a look at it? I'd like to have a feedback, so
> if the patch
> is ok also for you, it may be proposed to be included in svn.
That will work, but I can't help thinking that this is better
fixed in libdl.c by initialize _dl_symbol_tables at startup
somehow. I haven't looked if this is easy/possible.
Jocke
PS.
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during this period.
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