Accessing global symbols from shared library

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:16:35PM -0500, Tim Moloney wrote:
>
> I am currently trying to port a Solaris application to Linux.  The
> Solaris application dynamically loads custom shared libraries which
> can access symbols in the main executable.  This is not a clean
> design, but it works.  From what I've seen so far, the Linux
> runtime loader does not allow a shared library to access symbols in
> the main executable.
>
> If someone knows of a linker switch or something that allows shared
> libraries to access global symbols, please let me know.

You're probably looking for -rdynamic...

Dan

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