* Mathieu Desnoyers:
But my original issue remains: if I define a variable called __rseq_handled
within either the main executable or the preloaded library, it overshadows
the libc one:
efficios@compudjdev:~/test/libc-sym$ ./a
__rseq_handled main: 0 0x56135fd5102c
__rseq_abi.cpu_id main: 29 0x7fcbeca6d5a0
efficios@compudjdev:~/test/libc-sym$ LD_PRELOAD=./s.so ./a
__rseq_handled s.so: 0 0x558f70aeb02c
__rseq_abi.cpu_id s.so: -1 0x7fdca78b7760
__rseq_handled main: 0 0x558f70aeb02c
__rseq_abi.cpu_id main: 27 0x7fdca78b7760
Which is unexpected.
Why is this unexpected? It has to be this way if the main program uses
a copy relocation of __rseq_handled. As long as there is just one
address across the entire program and ld.so initializes the copy of the
variable that is actually used, everything will be fine.
Thanks,
Florian