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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs