Re: function address from object file?

[Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot radhakrishnan at codito dot com>]

Hi,

> Hi,
>     I am trying to print function address by reading an object file.
> But the function address are all shown to be zero. How serious is this
> bug? Here is the repro:-
>
> $ cat a.c
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> void t(void)
> {
>         int i=0;
>         printf("%d\n",i);
> }
>
> void u(void)
> {
>         int i=0;
>         printf("%d\n",i);
> }
>
> int main()
> {
>         t();
>         return 0;
> }
>
>
> $ gcc -c -g -o a.o a.c


This is not a bug . Go look at the doco for gcc -c . It only 
creates object files and not executables. So these are not 
complete executables in the first place.So gdb is ok in what it 
is doing in this case.

cheers
Ramana

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