Re: -dlopen self and optimizing away symbols

[Howard Chu]

Albert Chin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:22:08AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> > But anyway, if you have other modules, you should specify
> > -export-dynamic, I think.  At least I can't infer from the above snippet
> > that `-dlopen self' would be sufficient.  What do you think?
>
> I agree. I think the program in question should be linked with
> `-export-dynamic'. I'll ping the developers and try to find out why
> they're using `-dlopen self'. In any case, we need to find a fix as
> `-dlopen self' works on AIX but `-export-dynamic' does not.

We used to use both, but dropped -export-dynamic because it seemed to 
misbehave. Those changes are way back in the mists of time.

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