Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:31:39 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/2] __vdso_findsym | From | Ian Lance Taylor <> |
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: >> 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?
Do statically linked binaries use the vDSO calls?
Ian
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