I'm trying to use dladdr. It correctly locates the library, but it does not find the function name. I can call objdump, do a little math, and get the address of the function that I pass dladdr. If objdump can see it, why can't dladdr?
Here is my function:
const char *FuncName(const void *pFunc)
{
Dl_info DlInfo;
int nRet;
// Lookup the name of the function given the function pointer
if ((nRet = dladdr(pFunc, &DlInfo)) != 0)
return DlInfo.dli_sname;
return NULL;
}
Here is a gdb transcript showing what I get.
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
[Switching to Thread 0xf7f4c6c0 (LWP 28365)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) p MatchRec8Cmp
$2 = {void (TCmp *, TWork *, TThread *)} 0xf1b62e73 <MatchRec8Cmp>
(gdb) call FuncName(MatchRec8Cmp)
$3 = 0x0
(gdb) call FuncName(0xf1b62e73)
$4 = 0x0
(gdb) b FuncName
Breakpoint 1 at 0xf44bdddb: file threads.c, line 3420.
(gdb) call FuncName(MatchRec8Cmp)
Breakpoint 1, FuncName (pFunc=0xf1b62e73) at threads.c:3420
3420 {
The program being debugged stopped while in a function called from GDB.
When the function (FuncName) is done executing, GDB will silently
stop (instead of continuing to evaluate the expression containing
the function call).
(gdb) s
3426 if ((nRet = dladdr(pFunc, &DlInfo)) != 0)
(gdb)
3427 return DlInfo.dli_sname;
(gdb) p DlInfo
$5 = {dli_fname = 0x8302e08 "/xxx/libdata.so", dli_fbase = 0xf1a43000, dli_sname = 0x0, dli_saddr = 0x0}
(gdb) p nRet
$6 = 1
(gdb) p MatchRec8Cmp - 0xf1a43000
$7 = (void (*)(TCmp *, TWork *, TThread *)) 0x11fe73
(gdb) q
The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y
Here is what I get from objdmp
$ objdump --syms /xxx/libdata.so | grep MatchRec8Cmp
0011fe73 l F .text 00000a98 MatchRec8Cmp
Sure enough, 0011fe73 = MatchRec8Cmp - 0xf1a43000. Anyone know why dladdr can't return dli_sname = "MatchRec8Cmp" ???
I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga). I have seen this work before. Maybe it's my compile switches:
CFLAGS = -m32 -march=i686 -msse3 -ggdb3 -pipe -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer \
-Ispio -fms-extensions -Wmissing-declarations -Wstrict-prototypes -Wunused -Wall \
-Wno-multichar -Wdisabled-optimization -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs \
-Wpointer-arith -Wextra -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-sequence-point \
-I../../../include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC \
-D$(Uname) -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE
I have tried it with -g instead of -ggdb3 although I don't think debugging symbols have anything to do with elf.