On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Ravi Sankar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know how can I get the function name of the caller in c?.
I don't know how to get the function name, but you can get the return
address in the caller function using "__builtin_return_address()".
Google for it and you would get some idea. Inorder to get function
name from address, probably you will have to do some translation, just
like debuggers do.
Thanks -
Manish
>
> Like
> // c code
>
> void foo(void)
> {
>
> bar();
> }
>
> void bar(void)
> {
> // who is my caller?
> }
>
> I don't want to change the caller function code to add arguments etc.
> Even I don't have access to the caller function source code.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> --
> --,
> BR,
> Ravi Sankar Guntur.
>
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