What exactly does "info sharedlibrary" command show?

[chen free]

Thanks, Jacobowitz and Fred.

Yes, it a tough job, maybe I have to dump the memory image and look
into it. BTW, the "dump" command of GDB is also only able to dump
process' own virtual memory space ? Because when I try to dump
physical memory address range, the result is all zeros....I tried this
on 2.6 kernel

Looking forward to your reply.

Regards,
Eric

2006/8/29, Frederic RISS <frederic.riss@st.com>:
>
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 20:03 +0800, chen free wrote:
> > Recently I'm looking for a proper method of finding the memory usage
> > of shared library of a specific program,
>
> This is a tough job, I'm not sure looking at info sharedlibrary will
> help you much.
>
> > and from the manual of GDB, I
> > found "info sharedlibrary" command.
> >
> > However, I'm curious about the display of its result. Does anyone know
> > the meaning of memory address reported by GDB? Something like:
> > ============
> >
> > >From        To          Syms Read   Shared Object Library
> > 0x005cfc00  0x006bf800  Yes         /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> > 0x0059e7a0  0x005b010f  Yes         /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> >
> > ============
> > I believe they are not the physical address, right?
>
> They are the start/end (virtual) addresses of the library .text section.
>
> > ============
> > Contents of "maps"
> > 0x005bb000  0x006de000 r-xp    00000000 fd:00 3605643    /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so
>
> If you take this as an example, you should find out that 0x005cfc00 -
> 0x005bb000 gives you the .text section load addr (check in the elf file
> using objdump -h or readelf -s).
>
> Fred.
>
>