[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Revert use of weak symbols

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:13:25AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 07/12/2017 12:14 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > This series reverts the use of the __weak__ attribute which we did
> > to fix the test suite with CLang. It cause unintended problems
> > elsewhere which are not practical to fix. See the second patch
> > for details.
> > 
> > Daniel P. Berrange (2):
> >   Revert "internal: don't use weak symbols for Win32 platform"
> >   Revert "Prevent more compiler optimization of mockable functions"
> > 
> 
> So I thought about this too and I guess my question is - why are we not
> dynamically linking with the mock libraries? What we do is use
> LD_PRELOAD at runtime. However, if say virpcitest would link with
> virpcimock at compile time (dynamically), we can throw away LD_PRELOAD
> handling code.

Basically yes, however, that's tangential to this bug & patch.

Regards,
Daniel
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