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libclntsh.sl , is it a pure "C" library or C++ library?

 
Srinivasa_4
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libclntsh.sl , is it a pure "C" library or C++ library?

Hi
I would like to know whether the following are pure C libraries or "C++" libraries?
libclntsh.sl.9.0
libjava.sl
libwtc9.sl

Thanks
Srinivasa
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Stephen Keane
Honored Contributor

Re: libclntsh.sl , is it a pure "C" library or C++ library?

A quick check would be to do an nm on them. If they are C++ libraries then the function names will probably be mangled, if they are mangled then it is definitely a C++ library. If they aren't mangled, it could still be a C++ library (specially compiled) or more likely a C library.

If you are not sure, post the result of nm on each of them and we can take a look for you.

libclntsh.sl.9.0, libjava.sl
and libwtc9.sl
are C++ libraries, I believe.




Srinivasa_4
Occasional Contributor

Re: libclntsh.sl , is it a pure "C" library or C++ library?

Steve, Thanks a lot for the quick response.

I did "nm" on the files, but it does not show any symbols. (Probably they are stripped). But the symbols are displayed when I did "nm" on solaris libraries.
I have attached the output of nm on libclntsh.so.9.0

I also looked for files using
nm libclntsh.so.9.0 |grep FILE
This listed only .c files. Does it mean that it is a pure "c" library?

Thanks
Srinivasa
Eric Antunes
Honored Contributor

Re: libclntsh.sl , is it a pure "C" library or C++ library?

Hi Srinivasa,

I think they are Pro*C/C++ libraries (See Pro*C/C++ Precompiler Release 8.0 Programmer's Guide).

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes
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Alexey Roytman
Frequent Advisor

Re: libclntsh.sl , is it a pure "C" library or C++ library?

Generally, a pure C library differs from C++ library by 2 things:
1. C++ one may be linker to C++ runtime library (libCrun);
2. startup code (init/fini) symbols on library loading/unloading are defined.

I've cheched libclntsh.sl for being C or C++, and can not tell you about it anything. There are pros and contras:

1. no mangled names -- maybe, all C++ symbols are remapped at linking, or [extern "C"] used
2. there are init/fini functions in there, but I can not find the INIT/FINI attribute for them

Thus, if you want to load it dynamically, I recommend to do:

shl_load(libraryName,BIND_DEFERRED|BIND_VERBOSE|BIND_TOGETHER,0L);