-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I leave quotations after my reply? On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:36:43AM -0500, tejas khatiwala wrote: > AFAIK one way to be able to access a static variable is using dynamic > linking lodader. u can read man pages of dlopen() and family. and here is > example of its usage http://www.slimy.com/~jleonard/src/dlopen.html The example doesn't apply: - - dlopen() is a userspace function and can't be used in kernel - - dynamic linking can only be used to link exported (i.e. non-static) symbols Like Adrian Bunk already explained: there are dirty tricks to get the address of a static variable, but they will all fail when the compiler decides to optimise the variable away (which it is completely free to do because the "static" keyword *guarantees* that the variable will not be used outside that particular compilation unit). Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGdQrn/PlVHJtIto0RAsWkAJ0Qk9txqXYxwLMEeioj8z4T+74h5QCgiH51 7yl9an3I/1EPWWkw4eFqOrA= =bEkd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
