Re: 64 bit time_t changes

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:49:17PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> There is a basic assumption the any program will request libc.

Yes.

> All the libraries loaded at program load time (ie excluding those
> opened with dlopen) effectively generate a single symbol table.
> So having a NEEDED entry in a .so for a specific version of libc
> just won't help.

It *does* help. It makes it possible to identify the ABI a shared
library expects.

Joerg