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From: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
To: Mahmoud Hanafi <mahmoud.hanafi@nasa.gov>, systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Linking with external lib
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c74a5900-e913-e99a-4820-5be3705c15ec@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f57bf2ba-fa2d-768a-742f-836b1c18c8d6@nasa.gov>

On 09/06/2016 01:37 PM, Mahmoud Hanafi wrote:
> In my stap script I have some embedded C function that needs to make
> some calls to external libraries. Is there I can link my script with the
> external libs? Or do i need to add all the code I need into my script.

Basically you can't. A systemtap script gets compiled into a kernel
module (assuming you are using the default 'linux' runtime). A kernel
module can't access *any* user library.

Perhaps you should back up a bit and let us know what your external
library is trying to do.

-- 
David Smith
dsmith@redhat.com
Red Hat
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-06 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-06 18:37 Mahmoud Hanafi
2016-09-06 18:55 ` David Smith [this message]
2016-09-06 19:08   ` Mahmoud Hanafi
2016-09-06 19:34     ` David Smith
2016-09-06 19:40       ` Mahmoud Hanafi
2016-09-06 20:01         ` Josh Stone
2016-09-07 15:24         ` William Cohen
2016-09-08 18:17           ` David Smith
2016-09-08 18:30             ` Mahmoud Hanafi

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