Parsing .obj files (VS2005)

[Thomas Voigt]

Hi,

I would like to extract information about used symbols in object
files. The objective is that we have some pretty old libraries most of
which have been marked as deprecated over time and we would like to
know which of the symbols/libraries we can safely remove (and which
program still use this old code). The general idea is to parse the
symbols in the libraries and check which of them are no longer used
anywhere.

I know that dumpbin can extract information from object files, but I
would prefer code that parses the object files directly. MSDN
indicates that the object files are in COFF format so maybe there is
something that I can use?

Regards, tv

 

[Lionel B]

Hi,

I would like to extract information about used symbols in object files.
The objective is that we have some pretty old libraries most of which
have been marked as deprecated over time and we would like to know which
of the symbols/libraries we can safely remove (and which program still
use this old code). The general idea is to parse the symbols in the
libraries and check which of them are no longer used anywhere.

I know that dumpbin can extract information from object files, but I
would prefer code that parses the object files directly. MSDN indicates
that the object files are in COFF format so maybe there is something
that I can use?

This is highly platform-dependent, so you'd be much better off asking on
a forum specific to your platform.

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