Linker and Libraries Guide

Defining a Global Object

The default assignment of local symbol visibility to the objects obtained by a dlopen(3C) can be promoted to global by augmenting the mode argument with the RTLD_GLOBAL flag. Under this mode, any objects obtained through a dlopen(3C) can be used by any other objects with world symbol search scope to locate symbols.

In addition, any object obtained by dlopen(3C) with the RTLD_GLOBAL flag is available for symbol lookup using dlopen() with a path name whose value is 0.


Note –

If a member of a group defines local symbol visibility, and is referenced by another group that defines global symbol visibility, then the object's visibility becomes a concatenation of both local and global. This promotion of attributes remains even if the global group reference is later removed.