[LLVMdev] Shared libraries, msan and -z,defs

[Rafael Espíndola]

>> But then the program would fail to start if the (empty) interface
>> library is not available at runtime library search path.
>> Which is the common situation, unless you install clang as a
>> system-wide compiler. This will create lots of deployment problems.
>
>
> True, but it's only a headache for people using -z defs.
>
> I'm surprised there isn't a linker option we can use like '-u __msan_memcpy'
> to say "yeah, this symbol is undefined, but it's expected to be present at
> runtime".

bfd ld has --ignore-unresolved-symbol, but it is missing from gold.

Cheers,
Rafael