BFD and Elf Symbol Size

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Robert Norton" <rnorton@broadcom.com> writes:

> > -----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.

Not to miss the obvious, that is only safe when you know you are
looking at an ELF file.  You can check bfd_get_flavour.

Ian