Ravi Shekhar Jethani rsjeth...@gmail.com writes:
To check this I installed the libgit2-dev package which installed:
/usr/include/git2/*.h , /usr/lib/libgit2.so
Now, I exported all symbols using:
$ readelf -s /usr/lib/libgit2.so
and tried to match these with 'externed' prototypes in the Git
Hi,
I am a C Data Structure teacher at at an institute. Up until now I
have only written classroom type C code. I always had interest in
operating systems especially Linux Kernel but never got into anything
just passively followed 'lwn.net', 'dr dobbs magazine' etc.
But the series '30 Linux
On 22.12.2013 16:51, Ravi Shekhar Jethani wrote:
Now, my real question :
1) I cannot understand the reason behind making function prototypes as
extern. What purpose does this serve? AFAIK we put definition in a .c
file and the prototype in a .h thats it.
2) Why are some prototypes in
Stefan Beller stefanbel...@googlemail.com writes:
From my understanding there is no
difference for functions declarations being set to extern or not,
because extern is the default on functions.
There is a difference for shared libraries if you would like to control
which symbols are exported.
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