Re: [Libunwind-devel] symbol size?

[David Mosberger-Tang]

On 7/13/07, Andrew Cagney <address@hidden> wrote:
> [picking up an old thread]
>
> David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > On 2/28/07, Andrew Cagney <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> >> > Hi Andrew,
> >> >
> >> > On 2/27/07, Andrew Cagney <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >> Is it possible to get the symbol's size using libunwind?
> >> >
> >> > Not really.
> >>
> >> How should this be added?  The obvious change - modify
> >> unw_get_proc_name's signature to return start/size would be abi
> >> breaking.
> >
> > Breaking the ABI isn't acceptable, as you guessed, so we'd have to
> > introduce a new function.
> >
> ... since we're in a situation where the abi is about to break :-)

Breaking the abi still isn't an option.  *Extending* it is a
possibility, of course.

I don't mind adding something for symbol-size lookup in this round of changes.

 --david