Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:38:01 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/2] __vdso_findsym |
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> I think this issue started when some of the Go developers questioned > why the kernel needed to provide a very complex interface--parsing an > ELF shared shared library--for very simple functionality--looking up > the address of a magic function. This approach has required special > support not just in Go, but also in the dynamic linker and gdb, and > does not work well for statically linked binaries. The support in gdb > is perhaps a good idea, but elsewhere it does not make sense. > > So why not provide a simple interface?
What good would it do now that everyone already supports it?
The proposal is 10+ years too late.
-andi
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