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Re: How to lookup a symbol for vma using BFD?

Hi Dmitry,

I need to implement the following functionality:
Using an ELF file, I need to find the symbol (perhaps, not a
function!) for some vma.
Let's suppose I have an array defined as

Have a look at the file binutils/addr2line.c which implements something similar to what you want. Alternatively look at binutils/objdump.c and in particular the find_symbol_for_address() function which does pretty much exactly what you need.

Cheers
  Nick


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