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Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 18:50:06 +0200
From: Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: MUSL ignores__attribute__((constructor(priority))) ?
Hi Rich,
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 05:49:48PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > According to the OpenWRT build I have been provided by a 3rd party, it's
> > using musl-1-1.23.
>
> Can you confirm this to make sure we're not debugging an issue that's
> long since fixed? Run /lib/ld-musl-armhf.so.1 as a command and it will
> print its version.
*sigh*. It was 1.1.20. This specific (vendor) OpenWRT tree was broken in that
it used the 1.1.20 source code but called the generated packages and
path names 1.1.23 :/
After updating the sources to actual 1.1.23, the constructor order is
correct and I can run the unmodified libraries + application just like
on glibc.
Sorry for the noise then. Normally if something is named 1.1.23 you
assume it also is 1.1.23 inside...
> FWIW the only standards that musl purports to actually adhere to are
> C, POSIX, and IEEE 754 (as referenced by C Annex F). While ELF is the
> binary format used and we aim to use it in compatible ways so as not
> to be gratuitously breaking, there are a lot of details that do not
> match historical SysV behavior (this is also true on glibc to a lesser
> extent), e.g. historical RPATH vs RUNPATH difference, LD_* vars, etc.
Does that explain why trying to LD_PRELOAD libtalloc didn't fix the
ordering either? It was one humble attempt at manually overriding the
order (on 1.1.20).
> I only bring this up because "historical SysV documents say you have
> to do things this way" is not *automatically* a compelling argument
> for what musl should do, just one ingredient for consideration.
I would argue the compelling argument is to ensure applications (of
which probably 99% or at least 90% are written and tested with glibc)
will work ideally without porting, or without significant porting effort
and/or without subtle or not-so-subtle bugs [not claiming you did so,
just arguing hypothetically]. But then, this is just the library user
perspective of course, and everyone can run their project the way they
want.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Harald
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- Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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