From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: Jeff Lin <jeffli@xilinx.com>
Cc: "elfutils-devel@sourceware.org" <elfutils-devel@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Using dwarf_getfuncs to get function from object stored in memory
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:00:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YSQMiwhvWuqW41eW@wildebeest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9584640F-85CC-4CEF-B059-0044C7FE2151@xilinx.com>
Hi Jeff,
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 03:40:08AM +0000, Jeff Lin via Elfutils-devel wrote:
> I’ve written code to extract function from a shared object with
> dwarf_begin api that finds the dwarf objects with the file
> descriptor using dwarf_getfuncs. However, when I tried to parse the
> same object that is loaded into memory first, dwarf_getfuncs is not
> able to get the function. In the case of accessing the object that
> is in memory, I used the following line to get the dwarf object:
>
> Elf *ehandle = elf_memory(const_cast<char *>(so_file), size);
> Dwarf *dw = dwarf_begin_elf(ehandle, DWARF_C_READ, NULL);
>
> I am able to get the offset and tag with dwarf_nextcu, but errors
> out with dwarf_getfuncs. Does anyone know why dwarf_getfuncs does
> return properly when trying to process dwarf object that was store
> in memory?
If the ELF in memory is the same as the ELF on disk I don't know why
dwarf_getfuncs would work differently. Does the callback get called?
Does dwarf_getfuncs return -1? What does dwarf_errmsg say?
Cheers,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-23 21:01 UTC|newest]
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2021-08-17 3:40 Jeff Lin
2021-08-23 21:00 ` Mark Wielaard [this message]
2021-08-24 6:48 ` Jeff Lin
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