[RFA 3/4] Improved linker-debugger interface

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Wed Jul 18 07:02:00 GMT 2012


On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:42:12 +0200, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> I was considering suggesting the removal of the `gdb_assert' calls, and
> instead make it a simple check and return properly if the OBJFILE does
> not support probes.
> 
>     unsigned
>     get_probe_argument_count (struct objfile *objfile, struct probe *probe)
>     {
>       if (objfile->sf == NULL || objfile->sf->sym_probe_fns == NULL)
>         return 0;
> 
>       return objfile->sf->sym_probe_fns->sym_get_probe_argument_count (objfile,
>                                                                        probe);
>     }
> 
> It would cover the case when OBJFILE does not support probe and would
> not be less safe.

In fact why 'struct probe' does not contain its 'struct objfile *'?  It does
not make sense to pass probe with different objfile.  So the parameter
'objfile' should not be passed at all.


Thanks,
Jan



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