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From: random832@fastmail.us (random832@fastmail.us)
Subject: [TUHS] where is ecvt?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:41:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1411587684.755368.171378613.58B0C23E@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N6mDEeo=4hERK3AuTGh3+-owQnbpeZSp=bEPJVhjLA02Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014, at 13:24, Mark Longridge wrote:
> ar t /usr/lib/libc.a | grep ecvt
> 
> ...doesn't find ecvt.
> 
> But if you do:
> grep ecvt /usr/lib/libc.a
> then
> Binary file /usr/lib/libc.a matches

$ objdump -t libc.a

...
efgcvt.o:     file format elf64-x86-64

SYMBOL TABLE:
...
00000000000000b0 g     F .text  000000000000001e ecvt
...

On a system without a tool like objdump, the next logical step would be
ar x.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-24 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-24 17:24 Mark Longridge
2014-09-24 17:38 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-09-24 18:01   ` Mark Longridge
2014-09-24 19:41 ` random832 [this message]
2014-09-24 23:53   ` Dan Stromberg
2014-09-24 20:36 ` John Cowan
2014-09-24 22:07   ` Dave Horsfall

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