question about elf_slurp_symbol_table

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 01:12:39 GMT 2025


On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 07:21:10AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> It would be better, IMO, if either these symbols were cached and then
> just reused on subsequent calls;

Normal use case is to just call the function once, but yes, I guess
they could be cached.  COFF targets do so.

> or if this memory were freed before
> returning.

Can't do that.  The function sets up an array of pointers into that
memory.

-- 
Alan Modra


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