Access to symbol table from within a program

[John Levon]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:22:04PM -0500, linguist-gcc@rich-paul.net wrote:

> I'm curious:  I have found the -finstrument-functions compiler
> switch, and have used to it print out the addresses of functions
> as they are called.  How could I use the symbol table from within
> the program so that I could show the names of the functions as
> they are called, something like:
> 
> +main
>  +myfunc1
>   +myfunc2
>   -myfunc2
>   +myfunc3
>    +myfunc2
>    -myfunc2
>   -myfunc3
>  -myfunc1
> -main
> 
> This would be really handy.

You need to open the binary with bfd or whatever. Some very dumb code :

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/functrace/functrace/src/

There are also things that do it for you, you can just plug it in.

regards
john

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