Hello All,

Problem: I built a product (which contains multiple C files) as debuggable version (gcc -g) and ran this binary under GDB, how to find out in which shared library the symbol got defined.

gdb $ print addEmpNumber -> function name (This command displays the memory address where this function has been loaded but i could not find out this symbol is from which shared library .so file).

Please help me to understand.

Thanks,
Deenadayalan

I didn't want to give this lame answer yesterday, since "zero reply" seems to matter so much in this forum and I think there is a better way, but don't know it. But since no one gave the better way yet, this way works for me:

In another shell, find out the pid of the process you are debugging. Then (in that other shell) do
replacing PID with the actual pid.
Finally, look at the hex address that gdb gave you for that function and scroll down the output from /proc/PID/maps until you find the range that includes that address.

I need to do this fairly often when debugging, so if some expert posts the better way, that will help me as well.