I thought I read about a C standard library function recently that was able to return a pointer to any extern variable whose name was passed to it as a const char *. I think that it works via linker symbols, if that helps.
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I thought I read about a C standard library function recently that was able to return a pointer to any extern variable whose name was passed to it as a const char *. I think that it works via linker symbols, if that helps.
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dlsym, which is not part of the C standard library but part of the POSIX API.