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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/* These are stubs for functions that are actually defined
+ * in the dynamic linker (dlfcn.c), and hijacked at runtime.
+ */
+void *dlopen(const char *filename, int flag) { return 0; }
+char *dlerror(void) { return 0; }
+void *dlsym(void *handle, const char *symbol) { return 0; }
+int dlclose(void *handle) { return 0; }
+
+#ifdef __arm__
+void *dl_unwind_find_exidx(void *pc, int *pcount) { return 0; }
+#elif defined(__i386__)
+/* we munge the cb definition so we don't have to include any headers here.
+ * It won't affect anything since these are just symbols anyway */
+int dl_iterate_phdr(int (*cb)(void *info, void *size, void *data),
+                    void *data) { return 0; }
+#else
+#error Unsupported architecture. Only arm and x86 are supported.
+#endif