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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2021-12-14 12:37:44 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2021-12-14 14:44:04 +0100
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elf: Use new dependency sorting algorithm by default
The default has to change eventually, and there are no known failures that require a delay. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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@@ -60,9 +60,10 @@ Major new features:
of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
object dependency cases.
-* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between the two
- DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '1' uses the current existing
- algorithm, while a value of '2' selects the new DFS-based algorithm.
+* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
+ the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
+ new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
+ algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its