On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:55:35PM +0000, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >On Wednesday 07 November 2007 15:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> +config LDSO_GNU_HASH_SUPPORT >> + bool "Enable GNU hash style support" >> + depends on HAVE_SHARED >> + default n >> + help >> + Newest binutils support a new hash style named GNU-hash. The dynamic >> + linker will use the new GNU-hash section (.gnu.hash) for symbol >> lookup >> + if present into the ELF binaries, otherwise it will use the old SysV >> + hash style (.hash). This ensures that it is completely backward >> compatible. >> + Further, being the hash table implementation self-contained into each >> + executable and shared libraries, objects with mixed hash style can >> + peacefully coexist in the same process. >> + >> + If you want to use this new feature, answer Y >> + > >If I would read this help text, I'd wonder whether this >new GNU style hash is actually better than old way, and why. >Is it smaller? faster? or what...
One very visible effect introduced by it is that cross-compilation is broken now. Unpleasant. Reverting locally. _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
