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. > > > -- --, BR, Ravi Sankar Guntur.
