Re: ELF ???

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Tue, 11 May 1999 18:28:16 +1200


> Is there any way to get the variable type and size of fields of a
> structure from binary file, symbol table etc.?

I think with file produce by gcc with debugging (dwarf?) it should be
possible, as debuggers need to do this, but probably not otherwise,
symbols on their own don't contain enough information to determine
types and various other constraints.

-cw

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