UPDATE: Answer below in question, thanks to Greg Parker's pointer…
I uploaded a sample project here, but I'll describe it as well: https://github.com/tewha/getsectbyname-crash
I get a crash from my my (64-bit only) executable, but not when run from Xcode. If I run it from Terminal or Instruments, however, it crashes.
This is not a Debug vs. Release configuration problem; running the Debug executable in Terminal also crashes. Running the Release executable from Xcode works.
I am trying to read a inflict section from the Mach-O executable, linked into the app via CREATE_INFOPLIST_SECTION_IN_BINARY = YES.
const struct section_64 *plistSection = getsectbyname("__TEXT", "__info_plist");
NSLog(@"Found a section %s, %s", plistSection->segname, plistSection->sectname);
void *ptr = ((void *)plistSection->addr);
uint64_t size = plistSection->size;
NSLog(@"It has %zd bytes at %tx", size, plistSection->addr);
NSLog(@"Allocating %zd bytes", size);
void *buffer = malloc(size);
NSLog(@"Moving %zd bytes", size);
NSLog(@"(Crashes when doing the memmove.)");
memmove(buffer, ptr, size);
NSLog(@"Freeing %zd bytes", size);
free(buffer);
The output looks like this (I've simplified this a bit to remove date/time stamps, process IDs):
bash-4.3$ ./getsectbyname
getsectbyname Found a section __TEXT, __info_plist
getsectbyname It has 658 bytes at 100000d07
getsectbyname Allocating 658 bytes
getsectbyname Moving 658 bytes
getsectbyname (Crashes when doing the memmove.)
Segmentation fault: 11
Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
The answer:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#include <mach-o/getsect.h>
#include <mach-o/ldsyms.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
@autoreleasepool {
NSError *e;
unsigned long size;
void *ptr = getsectiondata(&_mh_execute_header, "__TEXT",
"__info_plist", &size);
NSData *plistData = [NSData dataWithBytesNoCopy:ptr length:size
freeWhenDone:NO];
NSPropertyListFormat format;
NSDictionary *infoPlistContents =
[NSPropertyListSerialization propertyListWithData:plistData
options:NSPropertyListImmutable format:&format error:&e];
NSLog(@"The value for Key is %@", infoPlistContents[@"Key"]);
}
return 0;
}