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I have started looking at elf_xxx() functions and would like some more
info than is provided by the man pages.  In particular I am interested
in getting symbol names and addresses from an executable.

Thanks in advance,

Jon

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   Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris
   Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 14:43:50 -0400
   Organization: Cabletron Systems Inc.

   I have started looking at elf_xxx() functions and would like some more
   info than is provided by the man pages.  In particular I am interested
   in getting symbol names and addresses from an executable.

Presuming popen 'nm' isn't the right solution, there are
a couple of discussion of what's in the ELF file in the
Linker and Libraries Guide and the SPARC Assembly manual,
both in AnswerBook, but not much on the libelf API.  The
SPARC ABI supplement to the AT&T docs might have some of
this (available at your computer book store), but the only
book I've seen that goes into this is AT&T's "Understanding
the ELF Object Format and Debugging Tools" edited by Mary
Lou Nohr (otherwise known as the "Lou-Nohr Module"), which
is also available at compter book stores.  

Rick
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With a bit of hacking, and staring at the man pages, I wrote some elf code
which will examine and modify the RPATH of an executable.  It might be useful
to you.

It is available from
        ftp://ftp.cs.buffalo.edu/users/milun/Solaris/setrpath.c

Davin.
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