Re: Symbol tables for separately linked pieces

Michael Snyder
2008-07-12T02:35:53Z

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 10:26 -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> I have an application that consists of two parts, a main program which
> is one ELF image and a subsystem which is separately linked as an ELF
> image of its own. The latter is loade into a portion of the address
> space of the former at startup. The symbol table of the subsystem
> image reflects its final load address.

As others have said, this sort of anticipates the challenges
we will face with heterogenous multi-process debugging.

My separate question is, why wouldn't your application be
suitable for a shared library?