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| author | Vivek Das Mohapatra <vivek@collabora.com> | 2020-12-14 17:25:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> | 2020-12-15 18:45:03 +1030 |
| commit | c3805e4cef747655e15f620afe6279a96d8c3fae (patch) | |
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Document -z unique/-z nounique in the ld man page and help output
* ld.texi (Options): Document -z unique and -z nounique.
* lexsup.c (elf_shlib_list_options): Likewise.
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diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog index 3db7fc6..9a0ff59 100644 --- a/ld/ChangeLog +++ b/ld/ChangeLog @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ * emultempl/elf.em (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_handle_option): Parse -z unique / -z nounique options. + * ld.texi (Options): Document -z unique and -z nounique. + * lexsup.c (elf_shlib_list_options): Likewise. 2020-12-14 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> @@ -1306,6 +1306,16 @@ Specify that the dynamic loader should modify its symbol search order so that symbols in this shared library interpose all other shared libraries not so marked. +@item unique +@itemx nounique +When generating a shared library or other dynamically loadable ELF +object mark it as one that should (by default) only ever be loaded once, +and only in the main namespace (when using @code{dlmopen}). This is +primarily used to mark fundamental libraries such as libc, libpthread et +al which do not usually function correctly unless they are the sole instances +of themselves. This behaviour can be overridden by the @code{dlmopen} caller +and does not apply to certain loading mechanisms (such as audit libraries). + @item lazy When generating an executable or shared library, mark it to tell the dynamic linker to defer function call resolution to the point when diff --git a/ld/lexsup.c b/ld/lexsup.c index 78b1834..1d01833 100644 --- a/ld/lexsup.c +++ b/ld/lexsup.c @@ -2022,6 +2022,10 @@ elf_shlib_list_options (FILE *file) fprintf (file, _("\ -z interpose Mark object to interpose all DSOs but executable\n")); fprintf (file, _("\ + -z unique Mark DSO to be loaded at most once by default, and only in the main namespace\n")); + fprintf (file, _("\ + -z nounique Don't mark DSO as a loadable at most once\n")); + fprintf (file, _("\ -z lazy Mark object lazy runtime binding (default)\n")); fprintf (file, _("\ -z loadfltr Mark object requiring immediate process\n")); |