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From: cubexyz@gmail.com (Mark Longridge)
Subject: [TUHS] where is ecvt?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:01:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADxT5N4oFe82BUby63mXoW1v6h2_sbxr32jvnX033mSrLOJMxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8843E941-3E0E-4538-A3E4-5D11590794F0@ronnatalie.com>

> The loader looks at all the symbol tables on the contained files.    Have you tried
> extracting the files in the archive and running nm on them?

It seems that in glibc the file efgcvt.c just wraps ecvt to a call to
sprintf so there's really isn't a ecvt.c (and thus no ecvt.o) but
efgcvt.o instead.

Mark


On 9/24/14, Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> My guess is that when the libc was built ecvt.s was built into some other
> file other than ecvt.o and exists in the library under that name.
> Ar only reports the file names inserted.   The loader looks at all the
> symbol tables on the contained files.    Have you tried extracting the files
> in the archive and running nm on them?
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-24 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-24 17:24 Mark Longridge
2014-09-24 17:38 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-09-24 18:01   ` Mark Longridge [this message]
2014-09-24 19:41 ` random832
2014-09-24 23:53   ` Dan Stromberg
2014-09-24 20:36 ` John Cowan
2014-09-24 22:07   ` Dave Horsfall

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