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From: Reid Linnemann <linnemannr@gmail.com>
To: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: bfd_get_section_size() returns zero?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=bjmv+-GUUE8rD2iFq3akrAs0by5L-U0nWXM_3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I'm fairly new to BFD, so please bear with me. I'm making a quick and
dirty dwarf parser and using BFD to fetch the relevant .debug*
sections. After I fetch a section with bfd_get_section_by_name(), if I
attempt to get the section size with bfd_get_section_size(), thus far
on an amd64 system I have been getting the appropriate size, but on an
i386 system the same code is returning 0! All size members in the
asection struct are zero, and line_filepos appears to be an invalid
address. I don't understand. I can get the section contents with
bfd_malloc_and_get_section(), but no size information. This happens
with all sections AFAICT. Both systems are based on RHEL 5 and are
using the same binutils (2.17.50.0.6-12.el5). Can anyone assist?

Thanks,
Reid

             reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17  0:11 Reid Linnemann [this message]
2011-02-17  3:57 ` Alan Modra
2011-02-17 15:32   ` Reid Linnemann
2011-02-17 21:55     ` Reid Linnemann

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