Implemented symbol memorizing to reduce the number of calls to lookup(),
making relocation go faster. While relocating a given shared object,
the dynamic linker maintains a memorizing vector that is directly
indexed by the symbol number in the relocation entry. The first time a
given symbol is looked up, the memorizing vector is filled in with a
pointer to the symbol table entry, and a pointer to the so_map of the
shared object in which the symbol was defined. On subsequent uses of
the same symbol, that information is retrieved directly from the
memorizing vector, without calling lookup() again.
A symbol that is referenced in a relocation entry is typically
referenced in many relocation entries, so this memorizing reduces the
number of calls to lookup() dramatically. The overall improvement in
the speed of dynamic linking is also dramatic -- as much as a factor of
three for programs that use many shared libaries.
Submitted by: jdp@polstra.com "John Polstra"
shared library. Formerly, the message looked like this:
ld.so: run: libjdp1.so.1.0: Undefined error: 0
The new message looks like this:
ld.so: run: Can't find shared library "libjdp1.so.1.0"
(Where "run" is the name of the program being executed.)
Submitted by: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
symbols.
An easy example to see this is to develop an X program which links
against Xt, but doesn't add -lX11 to the link line. It will link fine,
but cause run-time errors by ld.so because of missing symbols used by Xt
defined in X11. This patch makes the errors more readable.
Submitted by: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
on dlclose. Also correctly call constructors and destructors for libraries
linked with /usr/lib/c++rt0.o.
Change interpretation of dlopen manpage to call _init() rather than init()
for dlopened objects.
Change c++rt0.o to avoid using atexit to call destructors, allowing dlclose to
call destructors when an object is unloaded.
Change interface between crt0 and ld.so to allow crt0 to call a function on
exit to call destructors for shared libraries explicitly.
These changes are backwards compatible. Old binaries will work with the new
ld.so and new binaries will work with the old ld.so. A version number has
been introduced in the crt0-ld.so interface to allow for future changes.
Reviewed by: GAWollman, Craig Struble <cstruble@singularity.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
NetBSD ld code except for local changes for dlopen() and friends and
the hashing on the minor value of the shlibs. We should be binary
compatible now with all their libraries.
Obtained from: NetBSD
misfeature caused troubles when a program attempted to access a shlib
where one with a higher minor number has been hashed. Ldconfig does
only include the highest-numbered shlib anyway, so this is in no way a
limitation of generality.
Caution: after installing the new programs, your /var/run/ld.so.hints
needs to be rebuiult; run ldconfig again as it's done from /etc/rc.
warning handling and allows for link-time warnings with a modified
version of gas.
Note: Not all of the newer bits were updated such as some of the non-x86
machine-dependant code is relevant to FreeBSD right now.
Obtained from: NetBSD
completely when ldconfig unlinks it. If init is shared, then the
referenced unlinked copy of the hints file created by running
ldconfig in /etc/rc caused the file system to be unclean after
every reboot.
automagically. -lfoo has to be right to work, but ${LIBFO0} is too
easy to forget or misspell; nothing checks it and it should be
different for shared libraries.
handling of errors through the standard err() and warn()
more fixes for Geoff Rehmet's NULL pointer bug.
fixes NULL pointer bugs when linking mono and nested X servers.
supports a `-nostdlib' option.
accept object files without a symbol table
don't attempt dynamic linking when `-A' is given
a few variable names have chaged (desc -> fd), and the formatting has
changed which should make it much easier to track his sources.
I tested 'make world' for /usr/src and X twice with these changes.
to public. These functions are also used in /usr/include/link.h,
so it looks, like they shouldn't be private.
I will ask Paul about that, if this is correct.
late stage due to the fact that link.h was copyright Sun Microsystems.
This version of ld sync's us up with NetBSD's ld and supports compatablily
with NetBSD's -[zZ] flags (which we had reversed). Compiling with this
new ld will give you RRS warnings for libraries which do not contain .type
infomation - these wsarnings are harmless and will go away as soon as you
recompile your libraries (cd /usr/src; make libraries).
lib.c:
Pull in archives containing definitions needed by shared objects.
warnings.c:
Less spurious "undefined symbol" msgs for shared library defined
symbols.
ld.c:
Do a better job of recognising data in text segments, eg. `const char []'.
shlib.c,ld/rtld/{Makefile rtld.c}
Use strsep() in stead of strtok() and restore colons in eg. env. vars.
