Question about importing symbols

[Adam Jackson]

We resolved this on IRC, but just for posterity:

On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 13:55 -0500, Timothy Normand Miller wrote:

> Here's something interesting we just figured out.  If we do something
> like this, we get the unresolved symbol error:
> 
> pScreen->CreateWindow = fbCreateWindow;
> 
> However, if we CALL the function, we don't get the error.

This is a data reference, which ELF requires be resolvable on module
load.  Which won't ever happen, because your driver hasn't called
LoadSubModule() when it's dlopen()'d.

> > The "required" list is the list of symbols to error fatally on.  The
> > "referenced" list is the list to _not_ error fatally on, presumably
> > because you know when you're being careful with them.
> 
> Is that the second pointer argument to xf86LoaderReqSymLists ?

No, xf86LoaderReqSymLists() is varargs.  The "referenced" list is set up
with xf86LoaderRefSymLists().  All of one character different, how nice.

> > The lookup cost is not much worse than that of dlsym().  The runtime
> > performance ends up being slightly better than direct symbol calls
> > because you're not banging through the PLT every time.
> 
> What's the name of the function to call to look up a symbol by name?

void *LoaderSymbol(const char *sym);

- ajax
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