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Re: Q: usage of static symbols in elf/readlib.c ?

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: "Nardmann, Heiko" <Heiko dot Nardmann at secunet dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:43:07 +0100
Subject: Re: Q: usage of static symbols in elf/readlib.c ?
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"Nardmann, Heiko" <heiko.nardmann@secunet.com> writes:

> I am trying to understand elf/readlib.c but currently are wondering how the 
> symbols 'interpreters' and 'known_libs' are used. They are declared as static 
> and not referenced inside the file. So what is the magic here?

Read until the last line of readlib.c:

/* Get architecture specific version of process_elf_file.  */
#include "readelflib.c"

They are used by the file readelflib.c which is system dependend, the
generic one is in sysdeps/generic/readelflib.c and use both variables,

Andreas
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