The ABI status of ELF hash tables
The ABI status of ELF hash tables
Posted Aug 19, 2022 19:24 UTC (Fri) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)In reply to: The ABI status of ELF hash tables by rwmj
Parent article: The ABI status of ELF hash tables
.. and to continue that thought, why the linker wouldn't have a -Wl,--generate-old-style-hash flag or similar.
Posted Aug 19, 2022 19:29 UTC (Fri)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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The linker is generating the hash tables; the glibc change was, at its core, a change to a linker option. That's why this problem would be a relatively easy thing for distributors to address in the short term; they can just put the --hash-style=both option back.
The ABI status of ELF hash tables