[PATCH 2/2] Extend recognized types of SDT probe's arguments

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Friday, May 02 2014, Pedro Alves wrote:

> On 05/01/2014 10:52 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> This commit is actually an update to make the parser in
>> gdb/stap-probe.c be aware of all the possible prefixes that a probe
>> argument can have.  According to the section "Argument Format" in:
>> 
>>   <https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/UserSpaceProbeImplementation>
>> 
>> The bitness of the arguments can be 8, 16, 32 or 64 bits, signed or
>> unsigned.  Currently GDB recognizes only 32 and 64-bit arguments.
>
> Looks good.

Thanks.

>> This commit extends this.  Since this is a straightforward extension,
>> I am not submitting a testcase; I can do that if anybody wants.
>
> I think it'd be good to have a test -- the code that triggered the other
> bug was also supposedly straightforward.  :-)  Can we do this in C ?
> Ideally we'd also test that we don't crash with an invalid bitness
> (the complaint path).

Hm, OK, here is the testcase then.

>> 
>> gdb/
>> 2014-05-01  Sergio Durigan Junior  <sergiodj@redhat.com>
>> 
>> 	stap-probe.c (enum stap_arg_bitness): New enums to represent 8
>
> Missing '*'-

Writing ChangeLog entries while at "git commit" buffer is tricky...
Second mistake in a row!  Thanks.

>> 	and 16-bit signed and unsigned arguments.
>> 	(stap_parse_probe_arguments): Extend code to handle such
>> 	arguments.
>
> -- 
> Pedro Alves

Here is what I will push if there are no other comments.

Thanks,

-- 
Sergio

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