"Yihe Chen" <yihect@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm studing ELF topic. I have made a shared object(libsub.so), and > have compiled a test program with > the so lib. The steps is following: > > gcc -fpic -o sub.o ./sub.c > gcc -fpic -shared -o libsub.so ./sub.o > gcc -o test ./test.o -L. -lsub > > Ian Lance Taylor introduced a function: __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in > his blog articles at URL: > > http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/41 > > But When I want to look up the function in OBJDUMP'ed .text section > of test program, It's not there: > > objdump -d -j .text ./test > > I have found the functiong is defined in glibc's source code, but how > can I see it from the OBJDUMP'ed context. > Does the section containing that function be placed in the text > program????? It usually winds up in a section with a name like .text.__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx. It doesn't necessarily wind up in the .text section, though it should certainly be in the text segment. In any case, you readelf -s to see whether and where it is defined. Ian
