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H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Wed Jul 6 14:21:00 GMT 2005 
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:46:58PM +0100, michael meeks wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:34 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > Note that "protected" visibility is something you almost never want to use.
> > It is actually usually slower than not using it at all (involves usually
> > two symbol lookups instead of one).
> 
> 	Yes - I saw some of that in the LD_DEBUG=symbols output - an
> interesting behavior; it does eliminate the internal relocations though
> - but it's unpleasant from every angle as you say. Is there no
> visibility attribute will emulate -Bsymbolic per symbol ? of
> default/internal/hidden/protected - protected seemed the only one that
> came close.
> 

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-03/msg00087.html



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