Extracting function names from a C object file

[Leslie Chaim]

Is there a tool (or something else) to extract the function names from a C object file.

Thanks for any help.

[Alan Riggs]

what filename
strings filename

[Leslie Chaim]

Alan,

Neither 'what' nor 'strings' works.

I just compiled funcs.c into funcs.o, and would like to extract the function names from the *.o file.

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

try this:

nm file.o

Regards

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

try this:

nm file.o

Regards

[Alan Riggs]

Ah, I misunderstood. Andreas is correct, nm should work for that.

[amit1209]

nm works fine. Can you please let me know hw to interpret the other output shown.
It works in executable as well. I want to know if one can see the source filename and pathname as well.

Amit

[Dennis Handly]

nm -px will show a list of symbols. For functions it either has a "T" or "t" (for static).

>Can you please let me know how to interpret the other output shown.

See nm(1). For -px, it is value, letter then symbol.

>I want to know if one can see the source filename and pathname as well.

You could use odump -comp, or elfdump -dc (for PA64 or IPF).

If you have debug info, you can see with "info source".