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function trace back and address to line number conversion

  • 1.  function trace back and address to line number conversion

    Posted Fri October 16, 2009 01:24 AM

    Originally posted by: Wkdunreal


    Hi,

    I am new to AIX and I am developing a small tool for our product which helps debug memory leaks etc.

    Q1)Is there a way in which i can get a function trace back as to the call (lets say malloc() )has been made in which file--> in which function.

    I tried using the

    #pragma options ( i might be making a mistake in the sub options for tbtable would need guidance here too)
    and -qtbtable=full

    which says that a full stack trace would be appended as a text file at the end of the object file that we create if we create the obj file using the -g option.
    But I dont seem to see any stack trace at the end of the obj file.

    Can someone tell me what possibly could be my mistake? or suggest a better way of getting a stack trace
    now using __builtin_return_address() i can get the code address from where the fucntion call ( malloc() ) has been made.

    Q2)Is there any fucntion which will help me find the line number of the function call ( malloc() ).

    On HP UX we have addr2line() function which does this thing... on AIX i dont have an idea which function does it.

    Thank you very much in advance.
    Regards
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