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From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiosdj@gmail.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com,  sergiodj@redhat.com,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Implement new features needed for handling SystemTap probes
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3399ca3ki.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201203130858.q2D8w5fe030670@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (Mark	Kettenis's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:58:05 +0100 (CET)")

On Tuesday, March 13 2012, Mark Kettenis wrote:

>> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
>> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:21:00 -0600
>> 
>> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:
>> 
>> Mark> As far as I can tell SystemTap is Linux-specific.  So I'd think its
>> Mark> support should go completely in Linux-specific -tdep.c files.
>> 
>> sdt.h is really more like an ELF feature.
>
> All evidence I have points towards the functions in i386-tdep.c being
> SystemTap-specific; that's probably why they have "stap" in their name
> ;).  They're only used from i386-linux-tdep.c, so it makes much more
> sense to put them there.  If somebody ever ports (or reimplements)
> SystemTap for another OS, we can always move them.  The same thing
> holds for arm-tdep.c vs. arm-linux-tdep.c of course.

I actually chose to put those functions on i386-tdep.c because they are
used by both {i386,amd64}-linux-tdep.c, and so I thought it would be a
good way to export them.  However, I can put them in i386-linux-tdep.c
and export via a new i386-linux-tdep.h, if that's OK.

-- 
Sergio


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-09 20:29 [PATCH 0/3] Implement support for SystemTap probes on userspace Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-03-09 20:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] Refactor internal variable mechanism Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-03-09 21:03   ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-10  4:02     ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-03-09 20:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] Use longjmp and exception probes when available Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-03-09 20:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] Implement new features needed for handling SystemTap probes Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-03-10  8:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-10 16:56   ` Mark Kettenis
2012-03-12 15:11     ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-13  8:58       ` Mark Kettenis
2012-03-13 16:06         ` Sergio Durigan Junior [this message]
2012-03-15 20:44         ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-16 14:52           ` Mark Kettenis
2012-03-16 18:17             ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-10 19:22   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-03-12 20:37     ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-12 23:15       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-03-15 15:40         ` Pedro Alves
2012-03-15 15:36   ` Pedro Alves
2012-03-15 20:50     ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-09 21:15 ` [PATCH 0/3] Implement support for SystemTap probes on userspace Tom Tromey
2012-03-10  3:51   ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-03-10  7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-10  8:55   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-03-10  9:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-10 15:52       ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-03-12 19:59   ` Tom Tromey

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