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| author | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2021-09-09 18:48:11 -0400 |
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| committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2021-10-12 19:16:40 -0400 |
| commit | 005b1848eb4d1c5c5d2c175be0530a7b718bf7bf (patch) | |
| tree | 4c95b94a4197637aaa00e0ba1af072998350d483 /rts/RtsSymbols.c | |
| parent | 08aa7a1d2bb046398a2fc4c236b4267aa83244be (diff) | |
| download | haskell-005b1848eb4d1c5c5d2c175be0530a7b718bf7bf.tar.gz | |
rts/RtsSymbols: Declare atexit as a strong symbol
Diffstat (limited to 'rts/RtsSymbols.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | rts/RtsSymbols.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/rts/RtsSymbols.c b/rts/RtsSymbols.c index 0a821de64b..32f94b3cca 100644 --- a/rts/RtsSymbols.c +++ b/rts/RtsSymbols.c @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ SymI_HasProto(signal_handlers) \ SymI_HasProto(stg_sig_install) \ SymI_HasProto(rtsTimerSignal) \ - SymI_HasProto(atexit) \ + SymI_HasProto_redirect(atexit, atexit, STRENGTH_STRONG) /* See Note [Strong symbols] */ \ SymI_NeedsDataProto(environ) \ SymI_NeedsDataProto(nocldstop) #endif @@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ * which is loaded later. GHC generalizes this notion, allowing symbol * definitions to be declared as *strong*. A strong symbol is one which will * silently supercede definitions of the same name by later objects. + * + * This is currently only used in the case of atexit() to workaround an + * unfortunate interaction on musl systems (#20350). Specifically, + * we include atexit() in RtsSymbols to ensure that it can be used by foreign + * code loaded by the RTS linker (see #4456). However, this causes trouble on + * statically-linked musl systems since musl's libc.a defines atexit() as a + * non-weak symbol, causing it to conflict with the symbol table entry produced + * by the RtsSymbols entry. To avoid this we introduce a horrible special case + * in `ghciInsertSymbolTable`, ensure that `atexit` is never overridden. */ /* * Note [Symbols for MinGW's printf] |