On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Keith Owens wrote: > Exporting static symbols has always been allowed. Exported symbols are > the module equivalent of lazy binding, which is logically no different > from passing the address of a static symbol via a structure to a > registration function. In either case the static symbol can be > accessed from outside the object, without being marked as global. Well, if you make a symbol available to other modules it becomes global implicitly as they may refer to it by its name (by means of relocations) and not an address known from elsewhere. So keeping the symbol marked local in the module's symbol table is against a run-time linker's usual behaviour. One may expect to perform `ld -rx' on a module and have it still work as it's what happens for every other relocatable. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
