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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Djprobe improvement patches (Re: Dynamic djprobe)
Mathieu Lacage <Mathieu.Lacage@sophia.inria.fr> writes:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:23 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>
> > However, the right place for such an analyzer is likely not in or near
> > the djprobes code at all [...]
>
> Are you saying I might be allowed to assume that I can read the debug
> info for each function in which a user wishes to insert a probe ? [...]
For use from a front-end like systemtap, absolutely.
> Is there already some early dwarf/elf reading code in systemtap I could
> reuse ?
We're using the debug-info processing code within the elfutils
library. In order to build systemtap at all, one needs a version such
as that available in fedora rawhide.
- FChE