Problems with BFD library

[Kai Tietz]

binutils-owner@sourceware.org wrote on 18.06.2007 16:52:48:

> I've been banging my head on the wall but can't still figure it out
> what is wrong with this piece of code.
> I just want to know how many sections an ELF file has.
> The call bfd_count_sections keeps returning 0 sections!!! Even though
> I initialize the magic numbers table.
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include "bfd.h"
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>       bfd *ibfd;
>       char *filename;
>       filename = argv[1];
> 
>       bfd_init();
>       ibfd = bfd_openr(filename, NULL);
>       int sections_count=bfd_count_sections(ibfd);
>       printf("%s section count %d\n",argv[1],sections_count);
> 
>       bfd_close(ibfd);
>       return 0;
> }

May use after bfd_openr just "bfd_check_format (ibfd, bfd_object);". This 
may helps to load the object itself into memory ;)

Cheers,
 i.A. Kai Tietz

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