[Python-Dev] Preventing 1.5 extensions crashing under 1.6/2.0 Python

[Paul Prescod]

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> > Because Python supports a configuration time option to link modules
> > statically.

Of course. I wasn't thinking. But here's another naive question, on what
platforms is it significantly better to statically link and how is it
significantly better?

> Not to mention that the .so is loaded into the process' address space. I
> don't think that you can have two symbols in the space with the same name.

I've never been clear on that issue. It seems like an unreasonably
strict constraint. Adding a function called "doit" to one library could
break another dynamically library that happens to have the same name
defined? I'd call that a bug in the dynamic loading infrastructure (and
certainly not a problem on Windows!)!

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