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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/12/2018 16:20, Lev Olshvang
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Hi All,
I have an executable (C++) which is the exclusive user of the some shared library that it uses only during the initialization phase.
I would like to free memory used by this shared library, because I am running on embedded system.
How can I achieve this?
I know that dlopen() will load shared library, and hope that following dlclose() will free this lib memory.
1. Still I do not know what method should be used to make dynamic linker look again into executable and resolve symbols of the newly appeared symbols ?
2. And how to tell the dynamic linker ld-linux.so to postpone the symbol resolution until dlopen() will load the library?
3. Whether to compile and link executable with this library or leave unresolved symbols?</pre>
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<p>What you are asking for, as asked, is not possible. If you
explain your use case better, we might better understand what
you're trying to do.</p>
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<p>With that said, I think you should just link the library.</p>
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<p>All the text segments of the library (i.e. - code) will be loaded
with a read only shared mapping. This means that if they are not
used, they will be unmapped the first time memory becomes
constrained. If you do not use them later on, they will simply not
be loaded to memory. They will still be mapped, but will not load
your embedded system's memory in any significant way.</p>
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<p>Shachar<br>
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