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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Thanks for the ideas. I will give these a try. I see libelf is a library
> for manipulating ELF -- is there a tool that uses it (like Solaris
> pvs(1))?

Not that I'm aware.  I wrote a quick-n-dirty python wrapper and
used it to pull out the following sections for comparison:

  significant_sections = [
    '.ctors',
    '.data',
    '.dtors',
    '.fini',
    '.init',
    '.rodata',
    '.text',
    ]

That seemed to be sufficient.

Cheers,
-- 
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