Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:15:52 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: jkf@calweb.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Symbol mappings in loadable objects. Message-ID: <199901210015.QAA05959@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <013301be44ab$9c366720$3387adcf@devnull.calweb.com>
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In article <013301be44ab$9c366720$3387adcf@devnull.calweb.com>,
Jason K. Fritcher <jkf@calweb.com> wrote:
> >
> >gcc -export-dynamic -g -o blah blah.c
>
> That did the trick on the 3.0 box.
>
> Just to try it, I compiled this code without the -export-dynamic flag on a
> 2.2.5 box and it works. Why is the default of 2.2.5 to export the symbols,
> and in 3.0 a flag is needed?
Because 2.2.5 uses the a.out object file format, while 3.0 uses ELF.
They're two entirely different linkers, and they don't behave 100%
identically.
John
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