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Question about what BFD can access

Chris Ross cross+gnu@distal.com
Fri Jul 28 02:24:00 GMT 2006 
On Jul 27, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:43:36PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
>> But, as I'm doing it on the same system, I'm not 100% sure it's  
>> not just
>> magically finding the executable file somehow.
>
> It is.

   So, gcc is magically finding the executable on disk?  Odd.  How?  If
I can do the same magic, that might help me as much...

> You can pull the dynamic symbol table out of memory mapped BFDs
> (and BFD supports such now), but the static symbol table you need to
> look around on disk usually.

   I may not fully understand the difference between these symbol  
tables.
Is this an issue of a static vs. dynamic executable?  Or that either  
might
have either or both types of symbol tables?

> Search for _memory in the bfd header files, I think.

   Excellent.  I'll certainly do this.  Thanks...

                             - Chris
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