Extracting symbol values from COFF files

Troy Kemp <jeeves_x@hotmai.com>
17 May 2002 00:22:36 -0400

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From: Troy Kemp <jeeves_x@hotmai.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 17 May 2002 00:22:36 -0400
Organization: Sonera corp Internet services
Keywords: linker
Posted-Date: 17 May 2002 00:22:36 EDT

I have following problem.


I need to extract symbol values from COFF-file (coff-m68k). Now I know
how to extract symbols and symbol addresses from that file using
BinUtils but I haven't yet figured out how to get those values from
the file


for example
if in the code is following:


int iNumber=20;


>From the coff file i need to extract that iNumber and its value 20. I
can extract symbol name "iNumber" and its address, but not the default
value of it.


Can binutils do that (or another program?) or should I read the COFF
standard and make a own program which reads the address of the symbol
and by using that address to read the value (if any).


Thanks.

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