On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:08 PM Gargi Sharma <gs051...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I meant the Section and SectionByType calls.
Those calls do different things. They do more than just get the symbol table. They aren't equivalent. > [ 6] .gosymtab PROGBITS 00000000004d7758 000d7758 > 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 A 0 0 1 > [22] .symtab SYMTAB 0000000000000000 002aa000 > 0000000000012c30 0000000000000018 23 116 8 > > From readelf, I see that the binary has both symtab and gosymtab. Is > gosymtab a superset of information of the .symtab? If yes, why do we > need the .symtab? I explained .gosymtab in my last message. It is not a superset of .symtab. It is different. In any case we need .symtab because that is what ELF tools expect. > My code panics when I try to read the actual .symtab (doing a > section.data() for Section(.symtab)), which I don't understand as > well. Why not use the Symbols method? Perhaps we can help you if you show us a small self-contained example. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
