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From: Gery <zaphod001@gmail.com>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reading elf section data
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:25:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47389A8B.8030108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18232.12586.211596.82841@cerise.gclements.plus.com>

Glynn Clements wrote:
> Gery wrote:
>
>   
>> How to read in human format data from elf section?
>>     
>
> Can you be more specific? What kind of data? What format?
>
> objdump and readelf can provide a lot of information about ELF files,
> but they can't decode every type of data which could conceivably be
> stored in an ELF file.
>
>   
Ok.
i put some structure with gcc attribute to special section named ".my_sec"
The structure is like
struct abc {
char *a;
char *b;
};
and global variable is
struct abc klm = { "this is 1st string", "this is 2nd string" };

Which utility can show me just the data of that section?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-12 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-12 13:36 reading elf section data Gery
2007-11-12 10:55 ` Glynn Clements
2007-11-12 11:29   ` Steve Graegert
2007-11-12 18:37     ` Gery
2007-11-12 12:07       ` Steve Graegert
2007-11-12 19:11         ` Gery
2007-11-12 18:25   ` Gery [this message]
2007-11-12 15:56     ` Glynn Clements
2007-11-13 15:22       ` Gery
2007-11-13  9:13 ` Kristof Provost
2007-11-13 16:22   ` Gery

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