On 04/14/2010 01:24 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Felipe Balbi <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> is there any way to figure out where a section starts and ends ? >> >> I added a specific section to my program using >> __attribute__((section "<section name>")) and now I want to figure out >> where that section starts so I can iterate over it and call the function >> pointers I'm adding to it. >> >> Do I need a specific linker script to achieve that or does the default >> scripts give me possibility to find that out ? > > If you are using the GNU linker, or gold, and you make the section > name a valid C identifier, then the linker will automatically define > symbols __start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME which you can use. Ah, that's a much better idea. Forget my suggestion. Andrew.
