[TUHS] where is ecvt?

[Mark Longridge]

> The loader looks at all the symbol tables on the contained files.    Have you tried
> extracting the files in the archive and running nm on them?

It seems that in glibc the file efgcvt.c just wraps ecvt to a call to
sprintf so there's really isn't a ecvt.c (and thus no ecvt.o) but
efgcvt.o instead.

Mark


On 9/24/14, Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> My guess is that when the libc was built ecvt.s was built into some other
> file other than ecvt.o and exists in the library under that name.
> Ar only reports the file names inserted.   The loader looks at all the
> symbol tables on the contained files.    Have you tried extracting the files
> in the archive and running nm on them?
>
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