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From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Siva Prasad <sprasad@bivio.net>
Subject: Re: dlopen source
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:52:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070727005209.GA904@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070726215928.GG9876@austin.ibm.com>

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:59:28PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:47:57PM -0700, Siva Prasad wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can some one point to where I can find the source code for dlopen()
> > function.
> 
> ? Should be in glibc, right? I don't remember f it requires binutils
> pieces or not.

Yes, it's in glibc.

> (Yes, glibc is a rats nest, so understanding how it works is a whole
> nuther thing.)

Quite so.  The dynamic linking code in particular is
highly... impenetrable :(

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-27  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-26 19:47 dlopen source Siva Prasad
2007-07-26 21:59 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-07-27  0:52   ` David Gibson [this message]

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