[TUHS] where is ecvt?

random832 at fastmail.us random832 at fastmail.us
Thu Sep 25 05:41:24 AEST 2014


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014, at 13:24, Mark Longridge wrote:
> ar t /usr/lib/libc.a | grep ecvt
> 
> ...doesn't find ecvt.
> 
> But if you do:
> grep ecvt /usr/lib/libc.a
> then
> Binary file /usr/lib/libc.a matches

$ objdump -t libc.a

...
efgcvt.o:     file format elf64-x86-64

SYMBOL TABLE:
...
00000000000000b0 g     F .text  000000000000001e ecvt
...

On a system without a tool like objdump, the next logical step would be
ar x.



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