Tobias Bergkvist <tob...@bergkv.ist> added the comment:
You are absolutely right! From the manpage of dlopen(3) on MacOS Big Sur:
> dlopen() examines the mach-o file specified by path. If the file is
> compatible with the current process and has not already been loaded into the
> current process, it is loaded and linked. After being linked, if it contains
> any initializer functions, they are called, before dlopen() returns. dlopen()
> can load dynamic libraries and bundles. It returns a handle that can be used
> with dlsym() and dlclose(). A second call to dlopen() with the same path will
> return the same handle, but the internal reference count for the handle will
> be incremented. Therefore all dlopen() calls should be balanced with a
> dlclose() call.
Essentially, if the shared library contains initializer functions that have
some kind of side-effects, dlopen will also trigger these side-effects.
Basic example:
```
// mylib.c
#include <stdio.h>
void myinit(void) {
printf("Hello from mylib\n");
}
__attribute__((section("__DATA,__mod_init_func"))) typeof(myinit) *__init =
myinit;
```
---
```
// main.c
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
void* handle = dlopen("./mylib.dyld", RTLD_LAZY);
if (handle == NULL) printf("Failed to load");
}
```
$ clang mylib.c -shared -o mylib.dyld
$ clang main.c -o main
$ ./main
Hello from mylib
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