I have the following code which simply loads the library test.so from the current directory and executes the version
function within that library. What should be returned is a string. What is instead returned is junk from the stack(a pointer location maybe?). Does anyone have any idea why the following code would be failing.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv){
void *handler;
char *(*version);
char *error;
handler = dlopen("./test.so", RTLD_LAZY);
if(!handler){
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", dlerror());
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
dlerror(); //Flushes any existing error
*(void **)(&version) = dlsym(handler, "version");
if((error = dlerror()) != NULL){
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", error);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
printf("%s\n", version);
dlclose(handler);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}