dlopen broken?

[Guy Harris]

>Is the program interface to the dynamic linker (dlopen) broken?

If "dlopen()" drops core, it's pretty much by definition broken.
Unfortunately, I don't know what the fix is.  However, you are making what
may be another error in your sample code:

>     symbol = "_p2";
>     symAdr = dlsym(handle,symbol);
>     printf("returned symbol address of %s is %x\n",symbol,symAdr);
>     (*symAdr)();

Presumably, the function "_p2()" is defined as

	_p2()
	{
		...
	}

in the ".so" file you've loaded.  If it's "p2()", not "_p2()", you should
hand "p2", not "_p2", to "dlsym".  The loader may happen to let you get
away with sticking the underscore in front of it, but you're not supposed
to put it there, the fact that in Sun's C implementation on non-386-based
machines the compiler sticks an underscore there nonwithstanding.  Not all
C implementations put the underscore there, and if the second argument to
"dlsym()" were supposed to have the underscore there iff the C
implementation puts it there, portability would be blown out of the water
(remember, S5R4 has "dlopen()", too, and most S5R4 implementations
probably won't put the underscore there).