From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Rajat Jain <rajat.noida.india@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Newbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Accessing static variable from outside
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:09:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070616030926.GS3588@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b115cb5f0706151908o6a0f765etd5f275be8bf75f0@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 07:38:07AM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I understand that this is off-topic, but still if some one has any ideas
> ...
>
> I have a global variable that is defined static in an object file (say
> 1.o). Now I want to be able to get the value of this variable in
> ANOTHER object file (say 2.o) without changing the source of 1.c.
>
> Any ideas, anyone? I know that as per C, this is not possible. But may
> be some clever hack?
Depending on how the variable gets used the compiler might even
completely optimize it away.
> Thanks,
>
> Rajat
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-16 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-16 2:08 Accessing static variable from outside Rajat Jain
2007-06-16 3:09 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-06-16 16:36 ` tejas khatiwala
2007-06-17 10:20 ` Erik Mouw
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