How to get symbol value?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Oleg,

> I am porting linker for new target and want to create new relocation using value of absolute symbol. 
> What is the simplest way to get this symbol value?

Assuming that you have a pointer to the symbol's bfd_symbol structure 
then you can get its value from the 'value' field.  ie:

   struct bfd_symbol * sym;

   sym->value

Have a look in the source code for multiple examples of this.

Cheers
   Nick