Re: Handling symbols's display in objdump

[nick clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Ramana,

> It seems the objdump cannot distinguish between code space and data
> space of a harvward architecture. The 'print_address_func' interface
> (actually invokes objdump_print_address) is trying to just match the
> symbol's value but not the symbol class i.e. OBJECT or FUNCTION. Hence
> I am seeing text symbols' name being displayed for data symbols' name
> in the disassembly output.
>
> How should I handle symbols' display

You need to modify the objdump.c:find_symbol_for_address() function so 
that it will include a test to match the attributes of the section (CODE 
or DATA) with the type of the symbol found (OBJECT or FUNCTION).

Cheers
  Nick