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You're just describing the default, "out of the box" setup.
Hmmm... I haven't used that switch before. The one I've seen to hack around the difference I described is -Bsymbolic, which on Solaris 9 caused global constructors and destructors in the shared library to not run (probably because .init and .fini got killed or something).
In any case, if you can make ELF shared libraries behave like Windows DLLs, I think it's a safe bet that you can't do the opposite.
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BTW, is using --retain-symbols-file considered common practice? I'm pretty sure the use of -Bsymbolic is highly discouraged, at least on Solaris...
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Top three reasons why my OS project died:
Too much overtime at work
Got married
My brain got stuck in an infinite loop while trying to design the memory manager
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BTW, is using --retain-symbols-file considered common practice? I'm pretty sure the use of -Bsymbolic is highly discouraged, at least on Solaris...
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I'm sorry, I have no idea! I use it to export only certain symbols from my kernel - I'm not sure if it's heavily used elsewhere.
so use --retain-symbols-file ...?
