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diff --git a/android-changes-for-ndk-developers.md b/android-changes-for-ndk-developers.md index c30185735..0620d9e5b 100644 --- a/android-changes-for-ndk-developers.md +++ b/android-changes-for-ndk-developers.md @@ -376,3 +376,22 @@ adb shell setprop debug.ld.all dlerror,dlopen ``` enables logging of all errors and dlopen calls + +## dlclose interacts badly with thread local variables with non-trivial destructors + +Android allows `dlclose` to unload a library even if there are still +thread-local variables with non-trivial destructors. This leads to +crashes when a thread exits and attempts to call the destructor, the +code for which has been unloaded (as in [issue 360]). + +[issue 360]: https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/issues/360 + +Not calling `dlclose` or ensuring that your library has `RTLD_NODELETE` +set (so that calls to `dlclose` don't actually unload the library) +are possible workarounds. + +| | Pre-M | M+ | +| ----------------- | -------------------------- | ------- | +| No workaround | Works for static STL | Broken | +| `-Wl,-z,nodelete` | Works for static STL | Works | +| No `dlclose` | Works | Works | |