Thanks thats good starting point for me.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Manish Katiyar <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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--,
BR,
Ravi Sankar Guntur.

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