1 /* Get symbol information from symbol table at the given index.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2014, 2015 Red Hat, Inc.
3 This file is part of elfutils.
4 Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, 1999.
6 This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of either
9 * the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
10 Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
11 your option) any later version
15 * the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
16 Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
17 your option) any later version
19 or both in parallel, as here.
21 elfutils is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
22 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
23 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
24 General Public License for more details.
26 You should have received copies of the GNU General Public License and
27 the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If
28 not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
42 gelf_getsym (Elf_Data *data, int ndx, GElf_Sym *dst)
44 Elf_Data_Scn *data_scn = (Elf_Data_Scn *) data;
45 GElf_Sym *result = NULL;
50 if (unlikely (data->d_type != ELF_T_SYM))
52 __libelf_seterrno (ELF_E_INVALID_HANDLE);
56 rwlock_rdlock (data_scn->s->elf->lock);
58 /* This is the one place where we have to take advantage of the fact
59 that an `Elf_Data' pointer is also a pointer to `Elf_Data_Scn'.
60 The interface is broken so that it requires this hack. */
61 if (data_scn->s->elf->class == ELFCLASS32)
65 /* Here it gets a bit more complicated. The format of the symbol
66 table entries has to be adopted. The user better has provided
67 a buffer where we can store the information. While copying the
68 data we are converting the format. */
69 if (INVALID_NDX (ndx, Elf32_Sym, data))
71 __libelf_seterrno (ELF_E_INVALID_INDEX);
75 src = &((Elf32_Sym *) data->d_buf)[ndx];
77 /* This might look like a simple copy operation but it's
78 not. There are zero- and sign-extensions going on. */
82 /* Please note that we can simply copy the `st_info' element since
83 the definitions of ELFxx_ST_BIND and ELFxx_ST_TYPE are the same
84 for the 64 bit variant. */
93 /* If this is a 64 bit object it's easy. */
94 assert (sizeof (GElf_Sym) == sizeof (Elf64_Sym));
96 /* The data is already in the correct form. Just make sure the
98 if (INVALID_NDX (ndx, GElf_Sym, data))
100 __libelf_seterrno (ELF_E_INVALID_INDEX);
104 *dst = ((GElf_Sym *) data->d_buf)[ndx];
110 rwlock_unlock (data_scn->s->elf->lock);