Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 09:50:25 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dladdr hax Message-ID: <199801181750.JAA14188@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jan 1998 06:53:04 GMT." <199801180653.XAA07823@usr04.primenet.com>
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> To be bug-compatible with Solaris, you should simply return argv[0] > *witjout* trying to find it in your PATH. Really?! Gawd, what a hack. Well, that's easy, anyway. > Yes, this is a kludge. The whole dladdr interface reeks of, shall we say, expediency. I particularly loathe the requirement that it also return the "nearest symbol name to the specified address." I wish they had made that optional. It's very expensive, requiring a linear search of the whole symbol table. And I bet it's not even used most of the time. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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