/* * We make the version string static, and return a pointer to it, rather * than exporting the version string directly. On at least some UNIXes, * if you import data from a shared library into an program, the data is * bound into the program binary, so if the string in the version of the * library with which the program was linked isn't the same as the * string in the version of the library with which the program is being * run, various undesirable things may happen (warnings, the string * being the one from the version of the library with which the program * was linked, or even weirder things, such as the string being the one * from the library but being truncated). */ static const char pcap_version_string[] = "libpcap version %%LIBPCAP_VERSION%%"; |