From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dynlib_addr and stripped dynamic modules
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:37:55 +0000 [thread overview]
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am So., 22. Nov. 2015 um 19:25 Uhr:
> Does dynlib_laddr (and its underlying library function dladdr) work on
> Posix hosts when the module was stripped of any unneeded symbols?
>
> Well written Emacs modules will have all but one of its functions
> static and un-exported, so the only way to access the name of a
> function by its address is to read a symbol table of some kind. Does
> that work with *.so files that were run through "strip --strip-unneeded"?
>
>
Probably not, but I haven't tested it. I've added dladdr because I found it
useful for debugging myself and it's easy to implement, and I guess during
debugging people will often work with unstripped libraries.
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2015-11-22 18:25 dynlib_addr and stripped dynamic modules Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-07 18:37 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2015-12-07 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-07 18:57 ` Philipp Stephani
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