Finding Source file name from object or executable

[amit1209]

Is it possible to find the source file name [including path] from the either the object or executable. The code doesn't have debug information so gdb also did not work.

Amit

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Amit:

You could try:

# what filename

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Amit:

Another useful view would be provided by:

# nm filename

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

As a general rule, no. That's the kind of information that compiling with -g does provide. You can try the nm command and what but unless -g was used in the compile then no references to the source files exist. Normally, that name of the source file can be inferred from the object but that is not definitive and certainly does not include the full path.

[amit1209]

nm also only works when the compilation is done by using -g option. Unfortunately the option wasn't used.

Amit

[OldSchool]

"what" (sccs) or "ident" (rcs) might shed some light, but its a longshot.

[Dennis Handly]

See my answer to your question in your other thread:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/Extracing-function-names-from-a-C-object-file/m-p/2457315

>The code doesn't have debug information so gdb also did not work.

If you are on IPF, you can usually get this info, even if -g isn't used. Unless the executable is stripped.

>Clay: As a general rule, no. That's the kind of information that compiling with -g does provide.

This info is available with commands mentioned in the link above.
Compiler option summary is available with footprints(1).

>nm also only works when the compilation is done by using -g option.

-g has nothing to do with nm(1), it doesn't look at debug info.

[amit1209]

The odump does provide the filenames but without absolute path. However, the elfdump -dc option does not work and exits with Bad input file type -elfdumperr 2003

Regards,
Amit

[Dennis Handly]

>The odump does provide the filenames but without absolute path.

Sure it does. You just have to glue the base name to the CWD on the next line.

>the elfdump -dc option does not work

Sure it does. ;-)
elfdump works on ELF files (IPF and PA64). odump works on SOM files, PA32.