Bug 10461

Summary:	Enhance support for probing C++ binaries
Product:	systemtap	Reporter:	Josh Stone <jistone>
Component:	tapsets	Assignee:	Josh Stone <jistone>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	fche
Priority:	P2
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
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Build:		Last reconfirmed:
Bug Depends on:	10512, 10572, 10573
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Description Josh Stone 2009-07-29 23:46:20 UTC

stap can already somewhat support C++, just because of the similarity to C.  To
have better support we need:

- proper handling of C++-name mangling when specifying the function to probe.
- support for C++-specific types -- classes, references, etc.

(bonus)
- library functions to simplify accessing the contents of some common STL types,
like string and vector.
- tapsets for throwing & catching exceptions.

Anything else?

Comment 1 Josh Stone 2009-08-28 23:54:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> - support for C++-specific types -- classes, references, etc.

This piece is done in commit 9c11995.

For other features, I'm filing separate bugs and marking the dependency back to
this one.

Comment 2 Josh Stone 2009-09-17 03:10:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> - proper handling of C++-name mangling when specifying the function to probe.

I found out that debuginfo names aren't actually mangled, but commit 7d6d0afc
adds support for matching the namespace/class scope of the function.

With that, I think our C++ support is pretty solid.  I just need to write some
testcases now to ensure that it continues to work.

Comment 3 Frank Ch. Eigler 2011-05-16 21:30:16 UTC

effectively completed