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Re: ppc32/objdump : retrieving the symbol's name behind the GOT offset ?
- From: "yon ar c'hall" <yon dot ar dot chall at gmail dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:42:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: ppc32/objdump : retrieving the symbol's name behind the GOT offset ?
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
>> When it's related to the access to an object via the GOT,
>> objdump/ppc32 produces such disassembled code :
>>
>> lwz r9,-32764(r30)
>>
>> Is there any mean (with objdump, or any other tool) for quickly
>> retrieving the corresponding real symbol's name of the targeted object
>> (local or global) ?
>
> You'll need to scan the dynamic relocations for the relocation that
> applies to that particular GOT entry. That relocation will give you
> the symbol table index (in .dynsym) of the corresponding symbol.
>
What about local objects - hidden or default, which do not appear in
the .dynsym ?
-Yon
> -cary