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RE: Determining base address of shared library from core file
- From: "Bloch, Jack" <jack dot bloch at siemens dot com>
- To: "'Kevin Buettner'" <kevinb at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:20:10 -0700
- Subject: RE: Determining base address of shared library from core file
When doing this, I find a DT_DEBUG entry but is has a zero in the d_un.d_val
field (I am supposed to look at the executable and not the core dump right?)
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Buettner [mailto:kevinb@redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 1:53 PM
To: Bloch, Jack
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Determining base address of shared library from core file
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