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Re: Figuring out start and end of sections


On 04/13/2010 06:40 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> 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.

Terminate the list with a null pointer; AFAIK that's what everyone else
does.  To get the start address, you just need to define a global variable
in that section.  Of course this means you have to link everything in the
correct order.

Andrew.


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