Re: g_module_symbol and -O

[Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens root at>]

Zoltan Toth wrote:

> When I turn optimization on, a strange thing happens in my program.
> I load the shared library with g_module_load, this works.
> When I try to locate a symbol with g_module_symbol, the function gives TRUE as a
> return value, but the pointer I get is NULL. If I don't use the -O flag,
> everything goes right, the symbol is found.

sometimes optimization introduces "bad code" into the executable, i have
seen this on my own programms a few times. this is probably a bug in
gcc. :-(

best regards ...
clemens