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traditional lazy relocation with call-time plt resolver is intentionally not implemented, as it is a huge bug surface and demands significant amounts of arch-specific code and requires ongoing maintenance to ensure compatibility with applications which make use of new additions to the arch's register file in passing function arguments. some applications, however, depend on the ability to dlopen modules which have unsatisfied symbol references at the time they are loaded, either avoiding use of the affected interfaces or manually loading another module to provide the missing definition via their own module dependency tracking outside the ELF data structures. while such usage is non-conforming, failure to support it has been a significant obstacle for users/distributions trying to support affected software, particularly the X.org server. instead of resolving lazy relocations at call time, this patch saves unresolved GOT/PLT relocations for deferral and retries them after each subsequent dlopen until they are resolved. since dlopen is the only time at which the effective global symbol table can change, this behavior is not observably different from traditional lazy binding, and the required code is minimal.
musl libc
musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.
The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.
For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:
http://www.musl-libc.org/