ELF Header Symbol Extraction

ELF Header Symbol Extraction

[James Amor]

Hi,

Does anyone know of an Ada library that extracts ELF header
information from a binary? Anyone got any suggestions on how to do it
if I can't find a library?

I had thought of piping the output of an 'ELF examiner' tool to a file
and then reading in the contents of the file....seems like a bit of a
hack though!

Cheers in advance,
James

Re: ELF Header Symbol Extraction

[Stephen Leake]

jamesamor@hotmail.com (James Amor) writes:

> Does anyone know of an Ada library that extracts ELF header
> information from a binary? Anyone got any suggestions on how to do it
> if I can't find a library?

Gnu binutils provides a C library for reading/writing ELF. You
should be able to write an Ada binding pretty easily.

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: ELF Header Symbol Extraction

[Jeff C,]

"James Amor" <jamesamor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bac31daa.0402120630.3d6a4faa@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of an Ada library that extracts ELF header
> information from a binary? Anyone got any suggestions on how to do it
> if I can't find a library?
>

How about something like

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bfdada/
 (Not really sure of its status)

Re: ELF Header Symbol Extraction

[Randy Brukardt]

> Does anyone know of an Ada library that extracts ELF header
> information from a binary? Anyone got any suggestions on how to do it
> if I can't find a library?

I wrote such a thing as part of an aborted SPARC compiler project many years
ago. But I don't  know for sure what happened to it (or if it would be
useful on a different platform - as I recall there were a number of
target-dependent parts).

               Randy.