There usually is an operating system call that you feed a "symbol" to that gives you a memory address. This address could be: (a) the start address of executable code. (b) the start address of read only, or read/write storage for a data element of some sort. This is kinda of exposed in the VM api via VM->ioLoadModuleOfLength = ioLoadModuleOfLength; VM->ioLoadSymbolOfLengthFromModule = ioLoadSymbolOfLengthFromModule; On 2010-03-25, at 7:50 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:

Hello all,

Does Squeak/Pharo FFI offer a way to get the address of a function in a library? The target of interest is probably more of an exported global containing a pointer, but GetProcAddress() worked on Windows, and I am assuming a similar trick will be required on Linux.

Bill

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