Introduce anonymous namespace
The anonymous namespace is introduced to
handle cases when linker can not find the
caller. This usually happens when caller
code was not loaded by dynamic linker;
for example mono-generated code.
Bug: http://b/25844435
Bug: http://b/22548808
Change-Id: I9e5b1d23c1c75bc78548d68e79216a6a943a33cf
diff --git a/libc/include/android/dlext.h b/libc/include/android/dlext.h
index d59de29..ed9a3b9 100644
--- a/libc/include/android/dlext.h
+++ b/libc/include/android/dlext.h
@@ -131,12 +131,16 @@
extern void* android_dlopen_ext(const char* filename, int flag, const android_dlextinfo* extinfo);
/*
- * Initializes public namespace. The path is the list of sonames
- * separated by colon. Example: "libc.so:libm.so:libdl.so".
- *
+ * Initializes public and anonymous namespaces. The public_ns_sonames is the list of sonames
+ * to be included into public namespace separated by colon. Example: "libc.so:libm.so:libdl.so".
* The libraries in this list should be loaded prior to this call.
+ *
+ * The anon_ns_library_path is the search path for anonymous namespace. The anonymous namespace
+ * is used in the case when linker cannot identify the caller of dlopen/dlsym. This happens
+ * for the code not loaded by dynamic linker; for example calls from the mono-compiled code.
*/
-extern bool android_init_public_namespace(const char* path);
+extern bool android_init_namespaces(const char* public_ns_sonames,
+ const char* anon_ns_library_path);
/*
* Creates new linker namespace.