Hi Jonathan, Thanks. The name seems like a good choice. I'll have a look at the other ELF modules and see where I can fit the name in a sensible way.
Best wishes, Mats Kindahl Jonathan Yu wrote: > Hi Mats: > > I think there is an ELF:: namespace you can consider. Something like, > ELF::Extract::Symbols, maybe? > > Likely it won't have much to do with the Win32 equivalent, even though > they are functionally similar, so I wouldn't suggest putting them > under a common namespace. Perhaps what you can do (if you later decide > to write a Win32 module to do this) is put a SEE ALSO entry pointing > from each module to the other. > > Good luck, > > Jonathan > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Mats Kindahl <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I need to write some scripts that among other things need to dig out symbol >> information from object files. I did some basic research, but did not find >> any >> such module, so I will write my own. >> >> However, what is a suitable name? >> >> I will probably just make it a wrapper around binutils with some caching to >> avoid multiple calls (I will use it to analyze many files), so it is kind of >> tied to Unix/Linux. I will probably only need to bother with ELF, but I'm not >> sure since it might be necessary to be able to run it on Windows. However, in >> that case I might make my life simpler by just creating a separate module for >> Windows. >> >> - Unix::File::SymbolInfo? >> - BFD::Info? >> - Anything else? >> >> -- >> Mats Kindahl >> Senior Software Engineer >> Database Technology Group >> Sun Microsystems >> -- Mats Kindahl Senior Software Engineer Database Technology Group Sun Microsystems
