From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: me@felipebalbi.com
Subject: Re: Figuring out start and end of sections
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC581AB.705@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mcrd3y2vq31.fsf@dhcp-172-17-9-151.mtv.corp.google.com>
On 04/14/2010 01:24 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> writes:
>
>> is there any way to figure out where a section starts and ends ?
>>
>> I added a specific section to my program using
>> __attribute__((section "<section name>")) and now I want to figure out
>> where that section starts so I can iterate over it and call the function
>> pointers I'm adding to it.
>>
>> Do I need a specific linker script to achieve that or does the default
>> scripts give me possibility to find that out ?
>
> If you are using the GNU linker, or gold, and you make the section
> name a valid C identifier, then the linker will automatically define
> symbols __start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME which you can use.
Ah, that's a much better idea. Forget my suggestion.
Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-14 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-13 17:40 Felipe Balbi
2010-04-13 17:44 ` Andrew Haley
2010-04-14 5:08 ` Figurig " Felipe Balbi
2010-04-14 8:49 ` Andrew Haley
2010-04-14 0:24 ` Figuring " Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-14 8:49 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2010-04-14 6:21 Felipe Balbi
2010-04-14 6:30 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-04-14 6:47 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-04-14 6:50 ` Fabian Cenedese
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