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Re: Patch: add systemtap-style marker to _Unwind_DebugHook


Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
>
> Rainer> This is wrong: Solaris 10+ has <sys/sdt.h> for DTrace, but only defines
> Rainer> DTRACE_* there.
>
> Oops, I forgot that this was a compatibility header.
>
> I think I will make it check for the existence of STAP_PROBE2, unless
> there is some better plan.  I don't know anything about dtrace and have

For the moment, that should do.

> no way to test it, so if we want to use the DTRACE_* macro, somebody
> will have to help.

Adding DTrace probes to the unwinder sounds like an excellent idea: I
recently had to debug lots of unwinder issues on Solaris, and such
probes would certainly have helped.  I'll add this to my agenda.

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University


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