Procedure size

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu May 5 10:28:00 GMT 2005


Hi Sumesh,

>    Can some one tell me how can one find the size of a procedure
> from the object file using BFD support ?

Procedures should have a symbol associated with them.  This symbol 
should have the BSF_SYMBOL flag set and, for ELF based input object 
files at lease, the size of this symbol should be the size of the procedure.

> I found many kinds of sizes (cooked_size, raw_size) in the "asection" 
> structure, but

Note - the asection structure contains the entire contents of a section, 
which will probably contain lots of procedures, not just one.

Cheers
   Nick




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