[RFC] -rdynamic instead of function pointers for Lua(JIT) scripting?

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 04:15:06PM +0300, Victor Krapivensky wrote:
> We could make all the functions we currently provide to FFI non-static,
> feed their definitions to ffi.cdef, and build strace with -rdynamic,
> instead of providing function pointers to Lua(JIT).
> 
> This would improve the performance, as LuaJIT's FFI inlines calls to
> such functions, though this is surely not the bottleneck anyway.
> 
> What are the downsides of such approach?

-rdynamic would increase the dynamic symbol table section of strace:

without-rdynamic$ readelf --dyn-syms ./strace |grep contains
Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 136 entries:

with-rdynamic$ readelf --dyn-syms ./strace |grep contains
Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 965 entries:

GNU ld has --dynamic-list option to specify the list of symbols
that should be added to the dynamic symbol table.
This option should be used instead of -rdynamic whenever possible.


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