[Dwarf-Discuss] How to get union member offset?

Jun Koi junkoi2004@gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 01:37:03 GMT 2009


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get the offset of a member in an union. However, there
> is no attribute DW_AT_data_member_location attached to it!
>
> I heard that we can get the offset of the container union instead (the
> union is a member of another struct). But how can we get the
> container?
>
> I use objdump to see the information, and information attached to my
> union's member is only:
> - DW_AT_name
> - DW_AT_decl_file
> - DW_AT_decl_line
> - DW_AT_type
>

I use "objdump -W" to retrieve information, and I suppose that already
gave me as much information it can?

Thanks,
Jun




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