problems using BFD to reproduce objdump functionality (--stabs)

[Roul Oldenburger]

Right! No problem with BFD only my mistake ... and apart from sec_size I 
handed over the wrong pointer (stabs instead of strstab).

Thanks for help.
Roul

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Roul Oldenburger <oldenburger.roul@stn-atlas.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>void retrieve_stabstr(bfd *abfd, asection *section, char *sec_name)
>>{
>>  printf("Der Sektionsname ist: %s\n", sec_name);
>>  stabstr_size = bfd_section_size (abfd, section); 
>>  strtab = (char *) xmalloc (stabstr_size);
>>  printf("stabstr_size ist %d\n", (int) stabstr_size);
>>  if (! bfd_get_section_contents (abfd, section, (PTR) stabs, 0, sec_size))
>>  {
>>    if (sec_name == ".stabstr")
>>      free (strtab);
>>    bfd_errmsg( bfd_get_error() );
>>    return;
>>  }
>>}
> 
> 
> Why are you using sec_size rather than stabstr_size in the call to
> bfd_get_section_contents()?
> 
> This mistake could easily have been caught by using a debugger, or by
> careful reading of the code.
> 
> Ian