On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:09:39PM -0500, Kevin Day wrote:
>
>
> Is there a simple way that I can lookup a symbol name(by address) during
> runtime?
>
> I know I can exec nm, look up for the address I need, and get local
> symbols, but it would be really nice if I could get addresses of functions
> in dynamic libraries as well. I know I could use ldd to get offsets of each
> .so and calculate from there, but I'm starting to think I'm reproducing work
> that was done somewhere else.
>
> If someone could point me at a man page to something that can do what I
> need, tell me of a library that does something similar, or tell me why this
> can't be done, i'd be very thankful. :)
OK, you asked for it, here's a minimalistic answer: dlopen(3) :)
G'luck,
Peter
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