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Re: Does dladdr1 allocate heap memory?


Thanks a lot!

On 10-Nov-2017 9:07 pm, "Florian Weimer" <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/10/2017 07:52 PM, Ponnuvel Palaniyappan wrote:
>
>> Getting the struct link_map
>> is one of the steps and I am wondering
>> if I can make use of dladdr1 for that purpose.
>>
>
> I double-checked the situation, and dladdr1 will not call malloc in case
> of an error, so you should be good.
>
> (The code does not even install the ld.so exception handler, so it would
> not be able to catch errors anyway.)
>
> Florian
>


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