BFD and Elf Symbol Size

Robert Norton rnorton@broadcom.com
Fri Oct 19 16:07:00 GMT 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> "Robert Norton" <rnorton@broadcom.com> writes:
> 
> > Is there any way to get the size of an elf symbol via the BFD?
> 
> In general I would have to recommend against using BFD as a general
> purpose library.

I'm working on gprof which already makes use of the bfd.
 
> That said, sure, you can do anything.  In this case,
> 
> #include "elf-bfd.h"
> 
> and then
> 
> ((elf_symbol_type *) symbol)->internal_elf_sym.st_size;

Great! Thanks.

Robert



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