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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:58:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: "Bloch, Jack" <Jack.Bloch@icn.siemens.com>
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Subject: Re: Determining base address of shared library from core file
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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:51:31 -0700
"Bloch, Jack" <Jack.Bloch@icn.siemens.com> wrote:

> Is there an easy way to determine the base address of a shared library from
> a core file?

It depends upon what you mean by "easy".

For an SVR4-like system (which includes Linux), you have to traverse
the dynamic section to find the address of the r_debug struct.  Once
that is done, you still have to traverse the link_map structs to find
the desired address.  See solib-svr4.c for the gory details.

(IMO, this isn't very easy.)

Kevin