solib: URL patch

Thu Aug 14 00:18:00 GMT 2003

On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 12:01 Pacific/Auckland, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
>> Andrew> I didn't realize that we'd agreed to load .so files privately
> Andrew> (instead of RTLD_GLOBAL).
>> Actually, yeah, that is a new idea. It does seem like the only way to
> get correct semantics out of the new URL type.

With the new ABI fully implemented it shouldn't matter much whether you 
load them with RTLD_GLOBAL or not. After all, a class in an .so will 
just boil down to some constant pool data plus a table containing 
pointers to the (private symbols) of the method implementations, right? 
Its how those classes get registered with the classloader when the 
library is opened that matters.
Regards
Bryce.