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Re: How to access an applications ELF program header and ELF section header at runtime
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Bharath Ramesh<bramesh@vt.edu> wrote:
> Given this premise that these symbols are part of the linker script and the
> fact that the existence of .data and .bss section is not guaranteed, is
> there a consistent way of locating the region/section where all the global
> data of an application is stored in the applications address space and the
> length of this region/section.
There is no consistent way of locating the region/section where all
the global data of an application is stored.
You can dlopen yourself and lookup a single symbol.
What problem are you actually trying to solve?
Cheers,
Carlos.