Re: Linking with external lib

[Mahmoud Hanafi <mahmoud dot hanafi at nasa dot gov>]

On 09/06/2016 11:55 AM, David Smith wrote:
> On 09/06/2016 01:37 PM, Mahmoud Hanafi wrote:
> > In my stap script I have some embedded C function that needs to make
> > some calls to external libraries. Is there I can link my script with the
> > external libs? Or do i need to add all the code I need into my script.
> Basically you can't. A systemtap script gets compiled into a kernel
> module (assuming you are using the default 'linux' runtime). A kernel
> module can't access *any* user library.
>
> Perhaps you should back up a bit and let us know what your external
> library is trying to do.
The library is part of lustre. I need the functions that does address 
translation to string values.

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