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Diffstat (limited to 'include/ctf-api.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/ctf-api.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/ctf-api.h b/include/ctf-api.h index a3f45283b3c..153e012b5a0 100644 --- a/include/ctf-api.h +++ b/include/ctf-api.h @@ -314,7 +314,13 @@ extern ctf_next_t *ctf_next_copy (ctf_next_t *); archives: so they can be used to open both. CTF files will appear to be an archive with one member named '.ctf'. The low-level functions ctf_simple_open and ctf_bufopen return ctf_dict_t's directly, and cannot - be used on CTF archives. */ + be used on CTF archives. + + Some of these functions take raw symtab and strtab section content in the + form of ctf_sect_t structures. For CTF in ELF files, these should be + extracted from .dynsym and its associated string table (usually .dynsym) + whenever the CTF_F_DYNSTR flag is set in the CTF preamble (which it almost + always will be for linked objects, but not for .o files). */ extern ctf_archive_t *ctf_bfdopen (struct bfd *, int *); extern ctf_archive_t *ctf_bfdopen_ctfsect (struct bfd *, const ctf_sect_t *, |