From: Petr Machata <pmachata@redhat.com>
To: elfutils-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
Subject: Re: Libdw sample for reading function names and addresses
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:57:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y4rjakct.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1415552653.19702.40.camel@bordewijk.wildebeest.org
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Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 22:00 -0500, buddhika chamith wrote:
>> I have a requirement to read off function names and addresses from an
>> ELF binary debug symbols. Is there any such piece of code that's
>> already there that you have written? I had a look at some elfutils
>> codes (e.g: nm.c) in the hope of adapting them to my requirement. But
>> the libdw API is seems bit intimidating to me given that I have
>> little knowledge on Dwarf format.
>
> There is no such thing as "debug symbols". There are various DIEs (Debug
> Information Entries) that can be associated with particular address
> ranges though. You might want to read a bit about DWARF at
> http://dwarfstd.org/
There's also .symtab, if that's enough. dwfl_module_getsymtab and
dwfl_module_getsym should be able to retrieve it even from a separate
debug-info file, in case it was stripped, otherwise gelf_getsym would be
enough (and easier to set up than Dwfl).
Petr.
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2014-11-10 1:57 Petr Machata [this message]
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2014-11-11 4:41 buddhika chamith
2014-11-09 17:04 Mark Wielaard
2014-11-09 3:00 buddhika chamith
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