Re: dlopen question...

[Martin Preuss <martin@aquamaniac.de>]

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Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2003 21:25 schrieb Peter Valchev:
> > I'm using OpenBSD on a i386 platform, and dlsym does NOT work without
> > that prefix.
> > I verified this with two projects I participate in.
> >
> > So when it works WITH the underscrore (and it does), how can I be wrong ?
>
> You are using an OpenBSD version where i386 was using the a.out binary
> format, and where you need the underscore.
>
> You are wrong in making the assumption that everything works this way,
> because your program will fail on other architectures, and on i386 in
> newer OpenBSD versions in the future.
Well, of course, I made sure that would never happen ;-)

If the symbol without the underscore is not found then an underscore is 
prepended and dlsym is tried again.

I introduced this to OpenHBCI as well, the main reason was to make both 
projects work with Linux/Free-/NetBSD AND OpenBSD.

regards
Martin



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