On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:37:20 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 18:25 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x00000000100004d0 in .f ()
> #1 0x0000000010000500 in .main ()
IMHO that is just weirdness/bug in GDB.
No matter what it is it is a standard.
> You need about that looked up function symbol also the function
size, starting
> code address, visibility and binding. It is mostly the whole GElf_Sym
> structure (except you do not need numerical st_name and st_shndx is probably
> also not useful). This is all returned by dwfl_module_addrsym in my original
> post.
OK, but you can just use the function descriptor symbol for that can't
you? There is nothing an synthetic generated symbol would add is there?
In the function descriptor symbol ST_VALUE points to the descriptor.
In the synthetic generated symbol ST_VALUE points to the code entry address.
Jan