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From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com>
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Subject: Re: function address from object file?
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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

-- 
Ramana Radhakrishnan
GNU Tools
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