Locating global data in ELF code on IA64
 

Hi,

For my project I want to locate all the global data variables in an ELF
format code. To do this on IA32 and AMD64, we look through the _DYNAMIC
table and locate the relocation table by a d_tag==Elf32_Rel/Elf64_Rela
matching, then go through the relocation table entries and match their
type with R_386_GLOB_DAT/R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT. This mechanism, however,
doesn't work on IA64, because apparently IA64 stores its global data
somewhere else. In the relocation table all I find is function names,
thus there's no global data match.

I was wondering if this is the right direction to go on IA64. Any hint?
Thanks.

C.

Locating global data in ELF code on IA64
 

Locating global data in ELF code on IA64
 

Thanks for your response. I'm a bit confused on the details though.
What region ID do you mean exactly? Can you point me to some example
code on how to collect user global variables in IA64+ELF64? I suppose
IA64 runtime still uses _DYNAMIC table to group everything like IA32,
but apparently not any more.