Find start address of functions

[Michaelc]

Hey
i currently working on a project where i need to find the start address of functions. The easiest way would be to use function pointers however iam stuck with the older versions of the ccs compiler. However i have wrote a program whhich searches for a string in a function where the start of the string is at the start address of the function, this works fine but i can run in to some problems due to how the compiler works, for example sometimes it puts some operations in before the string therefore making my program useless, i was wondering if there is another way i could handle this problem.

void taskA()
{
char string[12] = "TASK_FIND_A"; //SEARCH STRING
}

The above shows the format of the functions i need to find, if i for example put in a printf statementm the compiler does something weird (in the symbols file it doesn't seem to have compiled the function) which i can't understand and makes the search string program useless

void taskA()
{
char string[12] = "TASK_FIND_A";

printf(lcd_putc, "%c", char_in);
}

can anyone tell what is happening here?
Thanks
Michael

[PCM programmer]

Well, you didn't say what version of the compiler you have,
so I'll assume that by "older" you mean vs. 2.7xx.

In the example below, I used PCM vs. 2.734. I used #org
statements to set the starting address of two sample functions.