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Re: About hidden & local symbols
- From: P J P <prasad at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:25:40 +0530
- Subject: Re: About hidden & local symbols
Hello Roland, thanks so much for the reply.
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> - And if so, there is no way of knowing if a *local* symbol is defined in
>> the same object/binary or is resolved from a library while running?
>
> SHN_UNDEF symbols always have to be resolved.
Yes true, but a given UNDEF symbol can resolve from *any* of the
libraries(DSOs) to which the binary is linked to, right? Or could we
predict that for sure?
Thank you.
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Regards
- Prasad