From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:50:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [Valgrind-developers] Re: git-diff-tree rename detection bug
Message-ID: <17199.59777.784039.885671@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <200509151649.47159.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer writes:

> Just curious: Why is it using LD_PRELOAD and not the VGs symbol redirection 
> mechanism, which should catch strlen even if used inside of glibc?

Valgrind-2.4.1 does symbol redirects for stpcpy and strnlen in
libc.so.6, and stpcpy and strchr in ld-linux.so.2.  I could extend
that list on ppc to include strlen et al., but I don't know if that
would solve the problem for ld.so, since strlen doesn't appear in the
symbol table for ld.so.

Paul.