Hello!

I want a variable to be shared between several ELF executables in the same process image - e.g. different .so files and the program executable.

And I don't want the value of the variable to be just copied between the executables (this is currently what happens for me) - i want all references to the variable in all executables to be dynamically linked against the same memory-location in a .so file.

What is the soulution? Some command-line argument to ls? Some change in the linker script? Something with the __attribute__ stuff?

Please HELP (thank you)!

*nix shared libraries don't work like that. The code is shared - the data is always copied.

If you want shared data - you get to create a shared memory segment.

Then synchronize access to that shared memory segment.

PS:
If you're only talking about one PROGRAM (one "process") - then just declare a global variable.

The variable will be "global" in exactly one place (in your program or in one of the .so's: it doesn't matter) and it will be "extern" everywhere else.