Re: Getting a symbol table from Gnat 3.15p on Windows

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Found it and tried it out. You're right about the lack of type info. I
didn't look closely enough to determine if nm would tell you how big
something was. That would at least allow you to find it in memory and
extract or write to it. But without the type info, the game is basically
over. You've got to know how to interpret the data, not just read and write
to it. A look at the names suggests that one might be able to parse them
backwards into Ada-ish names without too much trouble, but one would worry
about finding exceptions or things that otherwise won't go backwards easily.

Too bad Gnat doesn't seem to dump its symbol tables in a readily accessible
manner. I suppose one might be able to cobble something together with nm,
objdump, ASIS and several yards of glue code, but its suggesting that one
would spend all of one's time re-developing a compiler/linker rather than
the app of interest. Maybe there's another route. I'll have to keep
investigating...

MDC
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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> nm will give you the address corresponding to a (linker) symbol.
> Relating that to an Ada name can be problematic. You won't get
> type info.