Re: [Tinycc-devel] symtab_section

[Milutin Jovanović]

It sounds to me that you are building two shared libraries, and each one links to a static version of tcc. If this is not the case then the rest of my mail will not make sense.

If you are doing what I just described, then the ansewer is very simply: "Don't!" In such a setup, you will end up with two copies of code, two sets of global/static variables etc. The only way to bypass this is to use tcc as a shared library as well. This way all libraries that depend on tcc will use the same binary and same global/static variables. An added hazard with your setup is that down the road, your two libraries might be compiled with different versions of tcc, and then all hell will break lose, as the structs might not be the same.

To clarify, linking with static libraries is not evil by itself, but you crossed the line when you attempted to share data between two of them. If you statically link with tcc, and no tcc data or variables are ever used outside your dynamic library, then you are safe, even if both so's statically link with tcc.

Miki.

On 21 March 2012 10:53, David Mertens <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello all -

I ran into and then solved a very weird error in which the symtab_section global variable is being set to some non-null value during the constructor phase of my compiler state, but is null when I actually try to add symbols! The reason is because the symbol addition occurred from a different .so file as the constructor, and these apparently did not share their global symtab_section global variable.

Obviously, my understanding of dynamic linking is weak, but bear with me, I have a sensible question:

Is there a good reason symtab_section is a global variable? In addition to the issue that I encountered, what if I want to have multiple compiler states? It looks to me like the pointer for symtab_section will be overwritten for each call to the constructor. Won't this lead to trouble? And is there any reason we don't have a field in the TCCState struct to store the location of symtab_section?

Thanks!
David

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