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Re:Getting Past C by kazinator on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:21PM (#13322653)
You can easily access external symbols in C without including a header. The external refs in an object file are the accurate info about what is referenced.
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Re:Getting Past C by jstimpfle on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @07:26PM (#13323570)
Granted. Just as you can easily corrupt memory.

Just as you can statically link libc, without it showing up in the symbol table.

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