From: nilesh.tayade@netscout.com (nilesh)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: [OOT] About the symbols in binary file.
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:40:45 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F194BB5.1060503@netscout.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEnQRZD62VKh3ACxSDjMjuo3TAR=BHE8SVHGnYsi5UqV9_YMKQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday 20 January 2012 03:37 PM, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:56 AM, nilesh<nilesh.tayade@netscout.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The question is not completely related to kernel. But I came across
>> similar question when debugging in kernel.
>>
>> I tried dissecting the SSL library using 'nm' command. It is showing the
>> list of symbols along with some generic addresses (to be used when
>> relocating).
>> Also there are some characters 't', 'T', 'U'. I guess these correspond
>> to properties of symbols - like static, extern etc.
>>
>> Could someone please point out what exactly each character corresponds to?
>> I mean looking at the character, we should be able to denote if it's a
>> static symbol or inline etc. Do we have any such mapping?
>
> man nm :)
Missed that..Sorry for being lazy to check before posting the dumb query. :)
>
> thanks,
> Daniel.
--
Thanks,
Nilesh
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2012-01-20 9:56 [OOT] About the symbols in binary file nilesh
2012-01-20 10:07 ` Daniel Baluta
2012-01-20 11:10 ` nilesh [this message]
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