Re: [Tinycc-devel] shared libraries broken..ish

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 5:17:04 pm Andrew Johnson wrote:
> After patching tcc with the simple change for compound literals, I
> discovered that shared libraries don't work. Trying to use a shared library
> built in tcc, caused instant crashing. and gdb just gave a nice long list
> of ??.
>
> Quite by accident, I discovered that after running strip on the resulting
> .so, it worked. I tried this with several other shared libraries, and it
> was the same in each one, all libraries are useless on build.. but after
> running strip on them, they appear to work fine.
>
> Sometimes the actual binary grows on strip. Could it be that tcc is not
> properly building the structure for shared libraries, but close enough that
> strip fixes it?
>
> I can deal for now, since strip "fixes" it for me, but if anyone has ideas,
> or a real fix I would appreciate it :)
>
> Andrew

Is this still a problem?

Rob
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