ppc32/objdump : retrieving the symbol's name behind the GOT offset ?
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 23:25:00 GMT 2014
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:08:53PM -0800, Cary Coutant wrote:
> > When it's related to the access to an object via the GOT,
> > objdump/ppc32 produces such disassembled code :
> >
> > lwz r9,-32764(r30)
> >
> > Is there any mean (with objdump, or any other tool) for quickly
> > retrieving the corresponding real symbol's name of the targeted object
> > (local or global) ?
>
> You'll need to scan the dynamic relocations for the relocation that
> applies to that particular GOT entry. That relocation will give you
> the symbol table index (in .dynsym) of the corresponding symbol.
Yeah, that's what I do by hand. It's particularly messy with
-mminimal-toc code (ie. two levels of GOT). In that case r30 isn't
pointing at _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ so it's not a matter of simply
looking at _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ - 32764. You need to first find
the r30 value..
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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