NAME

Meta::Tool::Nm - run nm and give you the results.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Nm.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.11

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Tool::Nm qw();
        my($object)=Meta::Tool::Nm->new();
        my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This module hides the complexity of running nm from you. Give it an object file or a library and ask it to read it and it will return a hash containing the symbols in that file.

FUNCTIONS

        BEGIN()
        read($)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

Bootstrap method to find nm.

read($)

This function received a file name and runs nm on the file storing the resulting symbol table in a hash. The function then returns the hash.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV more examples
        0.01 MV perl packaging
        0.02 MV md5 project
        0.03 MV database
        0.04 MV perl module versions in files
        0.05 MV movies and small fixes
        0.06 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.07 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.08 MV website construction
        0.09 MV web site automation
        0.10 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.11 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Ds::Set(3), Meta::Utils::File::Patho(3), strict(3)

TODO

-check that the file received is indeed a shared library using File::MMagic.