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Re: Application entry point


  • Subject: Re: Application entry point
  • From: Greg Parker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:16:07 -0700

On Jul 12, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Aron-Zvi wrote:
I'd like to know if it's possible to retrieve an application's entry point programatically on OS X.

More specifically, I'd like to retrieve the thread state in the LC_UNIXTHREAD load command and extract eip's value.

I've found getsectdatafromheader() which requires a mach header. I've only found _dyld_get_image_header to get the mach header, however, I found nothing that retrieves a regular executable's (not a loaded shared library...) mach header.

_dyld_get_image_header() should provide the executable's header itself in addition to all dylibs and bundles.


If your code is compiled as part of the executable, you can use _mh_execute_header from mach-o/ldsyms.h. But that won't work if your code is part of a library or bundle.

Note that the functions in mach-o/getsect.h will only look up LC_SEGMENT contents. You probably need to scan the load commands manually to find LC_UNIXTHREAD.


-- Greg Parker email@hidden Runtime Wrangler


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