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Re: bfd_get_section_size() returns zero?


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Reid Linnemann <linnemannr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Your most likely problem is that bfd headers don't match the bfd
>> library you are linking/running against.
>>
>> --
>> Alan Modra
>> Australia Development Lab, IBM
>>
>
> I'm fairly certain that's not the case. If it were I would still
> expect bfd_get_section_size() to return a valid value since libbfd
> would internally agree on the structure of the asection record. Would
> you agree?
>
> Is it generally accepted that fetching a section with
> bfd_get_section_by_name() will always yield an asection with size
> information? Or can lbbfd perform a "lazy load" that needs
> supplementary actions to fetch all information for the section? And
> what would those supplementary actions be?
>
> Thanks for your assistance,
> Reid
>

After enough rummaging around I found this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529028

Basically the bfd.h header was not matching the ABI, as was suspected.


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