Q: usage of static symbols in elf/readlib.c ?
Andreas Jaeger
aj@suse.de
Fri Dec 2 11:43:00 GMT 2005
"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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