Re: Help Needed in accessing symbols

[Karthik R <karthik@emuzed.com>]

Hi,

I thought unless you explicitly make a symbol static, it is visible to 
other modules.

RK

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:46:28 +0800, Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net> 
wrote:

> What do you mean by default it is exported? I got my
> symbol accessible by another module by explicitly exporting
> it. Perhaps you should try that too?
>
> <quote sender="Abhinav Bharti">
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need some help in accessing symbols exported from
>> other module.
>>
>> One of my modules defines a variable ( say X) and by
>> default it is
>> exported > this is also visible in ksyms output.
>>
>> But when I try to access it from another module and
>> try to print its
>> address It always returns zero and hence any access to
>> it crashes the
>> system stating null pointer reference
>>
>> I am not able to figure what is going wrong.
>>
>> Is it because I am not explicitly exporting the
>> symbols
>>
>> Help needed.
>>
>> Regds,
>>
>> Abhinav
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
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