The ABI status of ELF hash tables

Posted Aug 20, 2022 11:54 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: The ABI status of ELF hash tables by ken
Parent article: The ABI status of ELF hash tables

Indeed. Something like that definitely require changes to the specification first. And then few years of wait time till people would adopt it.

Expecting that various third-party tools would support obscure features not present in the official specification is just crazy.

What's really surprising me is the fact that GLibC, in general, has pretty good and extensive documentation, but that particular change is not well documented.

The ABI status of ELF hash tables

Posted Aug 22, 2022 8:40 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Hmm

I've always found glibc's documentation patchy at best. Lots of it is documented nicely in the manual, but there are chunks (pthreads, getaddrinfo, the _l variants of the ctype/string functions) that are missing entirely!