In pratical terms, if your binary was compiled with Sun Studio C++ then the mangled name will match with the regexp __1.*Tug.*Initialize.* So you can search this regexp into the symbol table to retrieve the mangle name corresponding to your function and then disassemble it.
Example: I have want to dissamble the function refcount::initialize() - lookup the mangle name into symbol table: > ::nm ! grep refcount.*initialize 0x000000007b6bc31c|0x000000000000010c|FUNC |GLOB |0x0 |1 |__1cIrefcountOinitialize_int6M_i_ 0x000000007b6bc278|0x000000000000005c|FUNC |GLOB |0x0 |1 |__1cIrefcountKinitialize6F_i_ - check the name we are looking for: > ::dem __1cIrefcountKinitialize6F_i_ __1cIrefcountKinitialize6F_i_ == int refcount::initialize - dissamble the function: > $G C++ symbol demangling enabled > __1cIrefcountKinitialize6F_i_::dis int refcount::initialize: save %sp, -0xb0, %sp int refcount::initialize+4: sethi %hi(0xbc00), %i5 int refcount::initialize+8: sethi %hi(0x7021e400), %i1 int refcount::initialize+0xc: call -0x7a2bf86c <void*operator new> int refcount::initialize+0x10: add %i5, 0x108, %o0 int refcount::initialize+0x14: call -0x15c <refcount::refcount #Nvariant 1> int refcount::initialize+0x18: mov %o0, %i2 Note that it is a bit more tricky to dump constructors, destructors or operators (+, =, ...) because they have a special encoding. alex. Michael Shapiro wrote: >><address>$<bufctl_audit (Produces typical stack) >> >>..... >>void Tug::Initialize+0x28cc >>main+0x2f4 >>_start+0x108 >> >> >>>main::dis (Works as expected....) >>>Tug::Initialize::dis <---(Obviously not gonna work!) >> >>What's correct syntax to disassemble Tug::Initialize? > > > There is no support in mdb for C++ (or any non-C language) symbols: you have > to specify the mangled form. This is in part because there is no generic > mangling routine offered by the compilers -- there is only demangling. If you > want to do the above, mdb need to get much further in bed with a particular > compiler, which is one of the places we've thus far avoiding going. > > -Mike >