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From: "Charlls Quarra" <charlls_quarra@yahoo.com.ar>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: how does gdb extract symbol table information from binary      files?
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040716195937.64149.qmail@web41803.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3089.203.145.159.40.1090001565.squirrel@203.145.159.40>

--- Ramana Radhakrishnan
<ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com> escribió: > 
>
> Or do you mean type information ? The symbol
> information can minimally be
> gleaned from the ELF headers. The type information
> and the association of
> a variable / address with a type would come from the
> debug info in
> whatever form that might be.

 but i assume they want to know how the debugger gets
type/mangled symbol information, so they can use
something similar during runtime, avoiding stuff like
RTTI (maybe a fixed offset from the function address
there is the symbol as a ascii string?)

 cheers



	
	
		
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-16 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-16 17:59 Ramana Radhakrishnan
2004-07-16 20:08 ` Charlls Quarra [this message]
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2004-07-15 23:43 Rohit Grover

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