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c - How does libc provide functions with two names?

Before the advent of direct binding (-B direct) libc provided many functions with two names. For example, getpwent() and _getpwent(). These two names referred to exactly the same function in libc.

How does libc make two function names point to the same implementation?

I think it should not be as easy as writing the same code twice though.

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It's done via weak aliases a "nonstandard" linker trick that's been around since early unices and that's supported by all unix compilers/linkers I know of. It's basically done as:

void __foo(void);
void foo(void) __attribute__((weak, alias("__foo")));

often with macros to abstract it a little bit. This makes it so the symbol foo will have the same address and type as the symbol __foo by default, but allows it to be overridden by a "strong" definition somewhere else.


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