Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 21:15:22 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic linking libraries [Q] Message-ID: <19970423211522.OX52607@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199704231741.KAA29305@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Apr 23, 1997 10:41:17 -0700 References: <199704230223.LAA18646@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199704231741.KAA29305@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote:
> Try using 'nm' instead. The error messages are static, so they can
> be mapped in as data, since they are referenced by the mapped in code
> in order to set up the global:
> 00001670 F _exit.o
> 000015ac T _main
> 000020ec D _sys_errlist <*************************************
> 000015a0 t gcc2_compiled.
> 00001038 T start
>
> The marked data is from the libc for the sys_errlist[] reference.
...which actually turns out to be:
j@uriah 912% gdb -q a.out
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x160c: file foo.c, line 6.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/a.out
Breakpoint 1, main () at foo.c:6
6 printf("%s\n", sys_errlist[E2BIG]);
(gdb) p/x sys_errlist
$1 = 0x80624fc
(Thus inside the shared lib.)
--
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