Accessing the text segment of a process.

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1 total messages Started by Douglas A. Balog Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:05

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Author: Douglas A. Balog
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:05

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Hi,
 I want to have a subroutine that looks at the text segment of a process and
builds a table of what variables and functions are there. So that later on in
the program I can call a function or reference a variable by its name. Kind of
like asking a debugger to run a function.

I know of a way to compile the program, run a perl script which calls nm and
then recompile the program. But every time I recompile, I have to do it twice.

I also know of a way to popen(nm argv[0]) and find the info that way.

I really want to look at the text segment and figure this out.

Is this possible ?

Thanks for any info,
Doug

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