From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Sun Jan 10 1999 - 17:40:32 EST
On Jan 10, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > It appears that this requires programmers to be very careful about
>> > avoiding global symbols whenever possible. Or is there a #pragma
>> > or something that allows programmers to tell the tool chain to not
>> > include a symbol in this table?
>>
>> I think `static' does just that :-)
>>
> Obviously, I was referring to symbols that are non-static because they're
> accessed from multiple files within the library but which are not accessed
> by any files outside the library.
Yep, those will be listed in the symbol table. Anyway, it probably
doesn't increase the memory usage, since dlopen must lookup the
symbols in some table too.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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