Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:20:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@temphost.dragondata.com> To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Access to symbol table(including dynamics) at runtime Message-ID: <200106081720.MAA43236@temphost.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <20010608121616.A23647@dan.emsphone.com> from "Dan Nelson" at Jun 08, 2001 12:16:16 PM
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> > In the last episode (Jun 08), Kevin Day said: > > Is there a simple way that I can lookup a symbol name(by address) > > during runtime? > > > > I know I can exec nm, look up for the address I need, and get local > > symbols, but it would be really nice if I could get addresses of > > functions in dynamic libraries as well. I know I could use ldd to get > > offsets of each .so and calculate from there, but I'm starting to > > think I'm reproducing work that was done somewhere else. > > > > If someone could point me at a man page to something that can do what > > I need, tell me of a library that does something similar, or tell me > > why this can't be done, i'd be very thankful. :) > > Would dladdr() do what you want? AHH! YES! I'll buy a beer to the first person who adds dladdr(3) to the SEE ALSO section of dlopen's man page. Thank you! -- Kevin Day toasty@dragondata.com - kevin@stileproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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