Re: [Caml-list] Native executable symtable

["Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>]

> We have found that the md5sum can be fetced directly from the executable
> file associated to the process. This technique is documented nowhere, as
> far as I can see, but the source code of Symtable.init_toplevel is very
> informative as to how to do this for bytecode executables. What I would
> like to know is how to implement this technique for native code
> executables. Essentially, how am I supposed to parse the binary
> executable to extract the symtable information. Also, how am I supposed
> to figure out at runtime whether I must use the bytecode method or the
> native code method? Equivalently, how do I know at runtime if the
> process is running a bytecode executable or a native one?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Alex

I would say this is very difficult since it depends on linker used to
produce executable.
For bytecode things are always very easy since the CMO/CMA are just
Marshalled data of some ocaml data structure. As always, it get complicated
when you deal with system specificity issues.

Regards,
Nicolas Cannasse