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- different strategy for mach-o files to lookup symbol names, in order to be consistent with other functions (that use dladdr() and dlsym() calls, which mostly don't use '_' prefixes)
author Tassilo Philipp
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1 test for dynload library to resolve symbols from application image itself.
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2 by Daniel Adler in 2010
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4 Description
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5 A test function is specified in the main application, that will be
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6 dynamically resolved on main entry of the test program.
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8 The library path argument to dlLoadLibrary is set to NULL to
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9 specify the application image.
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11 Background
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12 self referencing is important on configurations where there is no
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13 shared library but everything is statically linked.
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