Is there a downside to using -Bsymbolic-functions?

Question

I recently discovered the linker option \"-Bsymbolic-functions\" in GNU ld:

-Bsymbolic
  When creating a shared library, bind references to global symbols to         


        

Answer 1

building glibc with -Bsymbolic-functions is not recommended neither. Here is the result I got:

Core was generated by `/home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/elf/ld-linux                                                               .'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x400a3e90 in _int_free ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0x400a3e90 in _int_free ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#1  0x4016b94b in __libc_dlsym ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#2  0x4004c2c7 in __gconv_find_shlib ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#3  0x40042320 in find_derivation ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#4  0x40042889 in __gconv_find_transform ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#5  0x400d6f00 in __wcsmbs_load_conv ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#6  0x400c86f6 in mbrtowc ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#7  0x08048914 in ?? ()
#8  0x00000000 in ?? ()