* size of the Global Offset Table
@ 2001-09-13 13:11 Joy Mukherjee
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From: Joy Mukherjee @ 2001-09-13 13:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi!
How can I know what the size of the GOT is for my program ? I would
greatly appreciate any help . Thanks a lot.
Joy
Joy Mukherjee
Graduate Student,
Deptt. of CS,
Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg,VA - 24061.
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* Re: size of the Global Offset Table
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@ 2001-09-13 19:29 ` Joy Mukherjee
2001-09-26 16:19 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-09-27 0:42 ` Jakub Jelinek
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From: Joy Mukherjee @ 2001-09-13 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brian R. Gaeke; +Cc: gcc, gcc-help
Brian,
Thanks a lot . objdump seems to be an external way to do the
stuff. Is there any dynamic way ( at runtime ) of doing the same ? Thanks
again.
Joy.
Joy Mukherjee
Graduate Student,
Deptt. of CS,
Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg,VA - 24061.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Brian R. Gaeke wrote:
> And then spake Joy Mukherjee, as follows:
> > How can I know what the size of the GOT is for my program ? I would
> > greatly appreciate any help . Thanks a lot.
>
> You could use GNU "objdump" on the program, and look for the size of the
> ".got" section.
>
> In ELF binaries, the PLT (procedure lookup table) is used alongside the GOT,
> as well. You might want to read the ELF spec to get the whole story; I'm
> no expert on this.
>
> Hope this helps.
> -Brian Gaeke.
>
> --
> Brian R. Gaeke, brg@dgate.org -- PGP/GPG gleefully accepted
>
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2001-09-13 19:29 ` Joy Mukherjee
@ 2001-09-26 16:19 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-09-27 0:42 ` Jakub Jelinek
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From: Alexandre Oliva @ 2001-09-26 16:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joy Mukherjee; +Cc: Brian R. Gaeke, gcc, gcc-help
On Sep 13, 2001, Joy Mukherjee <jmukherj@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> wrote:
> Thanks a lot . objdump seems to be an external way to do the
> stuff. Is there any dynamic way ( at runtime ) of doing the same ?
How about `popen("objdump ...", "r");' :-D
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2001-09-13 19:29 ` Joy Mukherjee
2001-09-26 16:19 ` Alexandre Oliva
@ 2001-09-27 0:42 ` Jakub Jelinek
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From: Jakub Jelinek @ 2001-09-27 0:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joy Mukherjee; +Cc: Brian R. Gaeke, gcc, gcc-help
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:29:43PM -0400, Joy Mukherjee wrote:
> Brian,
> Thanks a lot . objdump seems to be an external way to do the
> stuff. Is there any dynamic way ( at runtime ) of doing the same ? Thanks
> again.
libelf.
Jakub
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