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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Crashes with libQtUiTools.a if linked multiple times into the same process (with Bsymbolic-funct
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-05-13 16:06:59
Message-ID: 2569010.jKRmMuT7l1 () tjmaciei-mobl2
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On segunda-feira, 13 de maio de 2013 17.41.58, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Interesting problem still: so any public symbol from a static lib can 
> potentially appear multiple times in a process, if coming with different 
> libs/modules, and then the first instance of that symbol shadows all other 
> instances, possibly even of incompatible versions? Evil trap...

This is the same old problem of conflicting symbols. It's nothing new.

In fact, it still exists *because* it's missing the latest innovation, from 
2005: hidden symbols.

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