Oh, and this is also what lets you control which symbols are exported from your libraries in the first place, which lets you control your ABI and protect your intellectual property (especially if you get particularly clever and write a post-processing tool that obfuscates your symbol names to fake Windows-style export-by-ordinal).
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Re: Section Headers vs. Program Headers
Date: 2024-01-02 09:26 pm (UTC)