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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [Question] does GDB have a commands to get the end address of a function?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hauh37jj.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANFwon1pNMmDTN9O-M3mJr8u-3uBzxZFvgPXVx45acYh2xXocw@mail.gmail.com>	(Hui Zhu's message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:36:02 +0800")

Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> writes:

> Does GDB have an command to output the end address of a function?

The end address of a function is not well defined (and neither is the
beginning address of a function).  It is perfectly valid for two
functions to be interleaved in some way, or having their code spread out
in non-contiguous regions.

Andreas.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-11 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-11  9:37 Hui Zhu
2012-06-11 19:36 ` Matt Rice
2012-06-11 20:42 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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