Re: [Libunwind-devel] symbol size?

[David Mosberger-Tang]

Hi Andrew,

On 2/27/07, Andrew Cagney <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is it possible to get the symbol's size using libunwind?

Not really.

> Grubbing through the sources it looks like:
>
> - unw_get_proc_name returns the offset from the cursor address back to
> the symbol (giving the symbol's address) but not the symbol's size

Yup.

> - unw_get_proc_info returns a start_ip and end_ip but that looks to be
> either the address range that the unwind applies to, or a guess at the
> size based on the next symbol's address

Yes, the info returned here is supplied to apply to a "procedure"
which for unwinding-purposes is simply a contiguous address range
which may or may not correspond to a function.

 --david
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