On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:02:09PM +0300, emily becker wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about symbol table. > One of the section In symbol table is memory adress which symbol is located. > I wonder if this memory adress is bound at run-time or compile-time?
It depends. Symbols referring to objects in a dynamically loaded library will be bound at run-time, the rest should be bound at compile-time. > if it is compile-time, I don't understand how do we know whether the symbol > is located this adress. > Maybe this adress is already bound by other process or like this. Each process runs in its own address space, and therefore the compiler (actually: the linker) can know exactly where in this address space things will end up. (The above is true for FreeBSD and just about all other Unix-derived systems. Other systems can do things differently.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"