Re: Accessing static variable from outside

Adrian Bunk
2007-06-16T03:09:26Z

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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