Oracle Solaris 11.2 Release
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The link-editor can decompress and compress debug sections. See Compressed Debug Sections and Section Compression.
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Improved synchronization between runtime auditors and process initialization is provided with the
la_callinit
() andla_callentry
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The
-z relax
option can be used to relax items of the link-editor's default validity checking. This option allows the creation of an output object that would otherwise be rejected. The-z relax
option supersedes the-t
and-z relaxreloc
options. Seeld
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Greater flexibility in option processing is provided with the link-editor
-z type
option, and the additionalLD_UNSET
,LD_{object-type}_OPTIONS
andLD_{object-type}_UNSET
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The new
-F
option toelfdump
(1) provides output format options. -
Stub objects can omit symbols found in the associated real object. This technique prevents the use of those symbols in new code development that link against the stub object, while maintaining the symbols in the real object for backward compatibility. See Using Stub Objects to Hide Obsolete Interfaces.