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Re: How does one get static procedure names?

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
To: Bruce Korb <bruce dot korb at gmail dot com>
Cc: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org, gdb at gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:03:43 +0100
Subject: Re: How does one get static procedure names?
References: <668c430c0910271132j48e478d6s88aeb51282229402@mail.gmail.com> <8ac60eac0910271140n54923a92u74bd2a909ed05696@mail.gmail.com> <668c430c0910271156m29e5770dyec6de9afa84f01f7@mail.gmail.com>

Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry.   When you do a "bt" using gdb, you see the function
> names, whether they be "static" or have global (external)
> linkage.  The function backtrace_symbols(), on the other
> hand, doe *not* print static scope function names.

backtrace_symbols can only deal with dynamic symbols, which are the only
ones available at runtime.  If you want to resolve normal symbols you
need to read them from the (unstripped) binary, like addr2line does.

Andreas.

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References:
- How does one get static procedure names?
  - From: Bruce Korb
- Re: How does one get static procedure names?
  - From: Paul Pluzhnikov
- Re: How does one get static procedure names?
  - From: Bruce Korb

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