On 11/10/23 18:28, enh wrote: > > Yes, top will also be in that group. These ones may be good candidates > > for GSoC or intern projects. > > A trick I've been pondering using is declaring __attribute__((__weak__)) > on some > functions in toys/*/*.c or lib/*.c that lib/portability.c can have > optional > alternate implementations of, assuming the --gc-sections trick can make > the weak > one drop out if a non-weak one gets linked in. (It _should_ do?) > > you don't even need --gc-sections. that's just how weak symbols work. > > maskray (the person i mean any time i say "the linker guy") > agrees: https://maskray.me/blog/2021-04-25-weak-symbol
Yeah, but is it static transitive? If I have a weak void hash_by_name(int fd, char *name, char *result) that's calling static void sha1_transform(struct browns *hash) does sha1_transform() drop out when that hash_by_name gets replaced? That's not a theoretical case, that's what lib/hash.c looks like right now as I ponder implementing a krypt() to replace crypt(). (Well it's not xcrypt() because it shouldn't exit, and I don't really have a my_blah() prefix established and the thought does not appeal. And we've established on mastodon that I should not call it superdog().) *shrug* Gotta try it and see. And then try it again on llvm... Rob P.S. If Clark Kent was from earth and had a dog, he would logically name it eartho. Unless Kara named the dog? I could see her naming a dog "oh god I am desperately homesick because I _wasn't_ a baby, I became a displaced refugee at 13 moving from a spacefaring civilization to one that only recently invented the tractor and everybody I knew is dead and this was never really properly examined and am I expected to have babies with my cousin, what's the plan here and are we SURE nobody else made it out..." but shortening it to the old planet's name. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
