Re: Shared variables (between ELF executables)

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

sam_14332 writes:
 > 
 > Thanks for the reply!
 > 
 > Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. The problem is just that the value of
 > the variable will just be copied - I want the dynamil linker to link against
 > the exact same memory-location so that when one file updates the variable
 > will this be reflected in all other files.
 > 
 > Currently does ld produce R_386_COPY relocation entries in the executable
 > files - which is not what I want. I'v tried to run ld with -z nocopyreloc,
 > but this just makes each file to have an own instance of the variable (even
 > without copying the value). 

This should just work.  You'll need to provide us with a testcase so
we can see what you're doing.

Andrew.