Re: linking / performance / interposing detection ...

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 12:16 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 14:36 +0000, michael meeks wrote:
> 
> > 	So - as part of my -Bdirect work - trying to detect genuine cases of
> > interposing - I ran my simple perl script over all my gnome libraries:
> > http://go-oo.org/ooo-build/bin/finterpose (for which I attach the gnome
> > specific exclusions file [this incidentally shows lots of other bad
> > behavior in Gnome ;-]):
> 
> Very neat.  How do interposed symbols happen?  Is it just people
> forgetting to put a "static" somewhere?  That seems to be the case for
> parent_class in metal_gtk2_engine.c.

	I vaguely recall fixing that in some other theme engine at one point -
it was causing crashes when you changed from that theme to another theme
and back again, I think. So, yeah, it does cause problems.

Cheers,
Mark.