Info about struct members in ELF?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:37:54AM +0100, Torsten Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> from an ELF file i can get some info about a const struct,
> for example its address, its size and its content.
> 
> Does ELF support me somehow in interpreting the content?
> 
> For example "member 2 has offset 6 and size 2"?
> 
> I don't think i can get this info from the ELF file,
> but the debugger somehow has this information.  I
> can't think where else he can get it from.

You want to look at debugging sections.
Most often Dwarf2/3:
http://www.eagercon.com/dwarf/dwarf3std.htm
or Stabs:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo?cvsroot=src
are used.

	Jakub