FUNCTION::SYMNAME(3stap)

💖 FUNCTION::SYMNAME 💖

okay bestie, so this one is from the 3stap manual — the SystemTap tapset reference, aka the place where all the context functions live. and this specific lil icon is called function::symname ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

function::symname — returns the kernel symbol that goes with the address you hand it 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

symname:string(addr:long)

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• addr — the address you want to translate, bestie. give it here 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the way this works: you give it an address, and it gives you back the (function) symbol name that's associated with that address — if it's known 👑

and if it's not known? no worries, no drama. it just hands you the hex string representation of addr instead. it's giving "i tried my best, here's the raw digits" 😭

fr fr, it never leaves you empty-handed — you either get a symbol name or you get the hex string of addr. periodt.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

tapset::context-symbols(3stap) — go read that one too, iykyk 💜

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okay that's the whole thing, no cap 🌈 this was the SystemTap Tapset Reference, Version ... dated September 2026 — love that for us, mwah 💅💖🎀