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6990754: Use native memory and reference counting to implement SymbolTable Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank
author coleenp
date Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:11:27 -0800
parents 2d4762ec74af
children f08d439fab8c
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#ifndef __ELF_SYMBOL_TABLE_HPP
#define __ELF_SYMBOL_TABLE_HPP

#ifndef _WINDOWS


#include "memory/allocation.hpp"
#include "utilities/decoder.hpp"
#include "utilities/elfFile.hpp"

/*
 * symbol table object represents a symbol section in an elf file.
 * Whenever possible, it will load all symbols from the corresponding section
 * of the elf file into memory. Otherwise, it will walk the section in file
 * to look up the symbol that nearest the given address.
 */
class ElfSymbolTable: public CHeapObj {
  friend class ElfFile;
 public:
  ElfSymbolTable(FILE* file, Elf_Shdr shdr);
  ~ElfSymbolTable();

  // search the symbol that is nearest to the specified address.
  Decoder::decoder_status lookup(address addr, int* stringtableIndex, int* posIndex, int* offset);

  Decoder::decoder_status get_status() { return m_status; };

 protected:
  ElfSymbolTable*  m_next;

  // holds a complete symbol table section if
  // can allocate enough memory
  Elf_Sym*            m_symbols;

  // file contains string table
  FILE*               m_file;

  // section header
  Elf_Shdr            m_shdr;

  Decoder::decoder_status  m_status;
};

#endif // _WINDOWS

#endif // __ELF_SYMBOL_TABLE_HPP