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Re: Display libc function names instead of address ?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Victor STINNER <victor dot stinner at haypocalc dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:43:13 -0400
- Subject: Re: Display libc function names instead of address ?
- References: <1118892960.12713.5.camel@haypopc>
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:36:00AM +0200, Victor STINNER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I woud like to know if it is possible to display libc functions name
> instead of their address. Example :
>
> (1) (...) // prepare parameters
> call 0x8048728
>
> (2) jmp *0x804a6b0 // in relocation table, at 0x08048728
>
> And if I do a "objdump -R file | grep 0x804a6b0", it answers printf. So
> is it possible to display "call printf" instead of "call 0x8048728" ? Or
> at least display "jmp *<printf>" instead of "jmp *0x804a6b0" ?
>
> I think that gdb can already read relocation table because "print
> printf" command give me the function address.
>
> I hope that it's just an option :-)
GDB can't do this - but, I think, that the very latest BFD/opcodes
library supports this for some targets. Someone needs to hook those
bits up to GDB.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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