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2006-04-27, 7:56 am

Hi,
I was using the options -T/--dynamic-sym for objdump or the
-D/--dynamic option for nm.

The man page from nm says:
-D
--dynamic
Display the dynamic symbols rather than the normal symbols.
This is only meaningful for dynamic objects, such as certain types of
shared libraries.

And the man page for objdump says :
-T
--dynamic-syms
Print the dynamic symbol table entries of the file. This
is only meaningful for dynamic objects, such as certain types of
shared libraries.This is similar to the information provided by the nm
program when given the -D (--dynamic) option.

Can anyone make me understand when is it that we use this options to
search for symbols.Is it when we use dl* interface to load a dynamic
library at runtime or it should be used when any shared library is used.

Tx
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