On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 11:28:25AM +0100, Milian Wolff wrote: > On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 2:42:23 PM CET Mark Wielaard wrote: > > Longer answer. An address pointing into the PLT does > > really point to an ELF symbol. > > You mean: does _not_ > Right?
Yes, I meant "does not point". > > If we have such a backend function then we could even > > do what BFD apparently does. Which is to then create a > > "fake" symbol with as name real_function@plt. But I am > > not sure such fake symbols are very useful (and will > > quickly become confusing since they aren't real ELF > > symbols). > > So the objdump command I used is leveraging BFD internally to give me the > @plt > names? I noticed that I also see @plt in perf, which is also probably using > BFD internally. That at least clarifies why it works in some tools but not in > when using dwfl. binutils objdump certainly does. > > Hope that helps. And maybe inspires someone (you?) to > > write up such a backend function and corresponding > > dwfl frontend function. > > It does help, thanks. I'm interested in contributing such functionality, but, > sadly, I'm not sure when I'll get the time to actually do it. Thanks, wish I had spare time myself :) Cheers, Mark
