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newbie: problems initializing a bfd*


I am new the the bfd and am having problems initializing a bfd* with it.
I have read the docs but they weren't that helpful with the problem.

The following code encapsulates where I am going wrong:

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
	long storage_needed;
	asymbol **symbol_table;
	long number_of_symbols;
	bfd* abfd;

	bfd_init();

	// have tried bfd_openr with elf32-i386 for the target
	// and that didn't help, didn't help
	abfd = bfd_openr("object_file.o", NULL); 
	
	if (!abfd)
		return 1;
      
	storage_needed = bfd_get_symtab_upper_bound (abfd);
	
	return 0;
}

I get an exception in _bfd_elf_get_symtab_upper_bound

System:
Red Hat Linux 7.2
Binutils snapshot 011128 (compiled sucessfully with gcc 3.0.2)

I have also looked through objdump.c to see if that helped. I 
couldn't see any major difference in the way I am using the openr 
function (I assume that this is where the problem is) or any 
intialization that I was missing.

Any help would be great.

--
George Hicken
icq#: 462051


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