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From: Joy Mukherjee <jmukherj@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Start and end of the  GOT
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:33:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0109142032180.1738-100000@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>
References: <orheu5x26z.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00582.html

True, but %ebx just contains the start address of the GOT. How do I get
the END address ? or in other words , how do I get its size ? Thank again
for your help .
Joy

Joy Mukherjee
Graduate Student,
Deptt. of CS,
Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg,VA - 24061.

On 14 Sep 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Sep 13, 2001, Joy Mukherjee <jmukherj@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> wrote:
>
> > 	Thanks again for your help . I do want to do it at runtime . I am
> > working on Red Hat Linux (glibc), intel x86
>
> AFAIK, all you have to do is to get the value of ebx in a function
> compiled with -fPIC.
>
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