[RFC PATCH 0/3] Djprobe improvement patches (Re: Dynamic djprobe)

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Mathieu Lacage <Mathieu.Lacage@sophia.inria.fr> writes:

> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:23 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> > However, the right place for such an analyzer is likely not in or near
> > the djprobes code at all [...]
> 
> Are you saying I might be allowed to assume that I can read the debug
> info for each function in which a user wishes to insert a probe ? [...]

For use from a front-end like systemtap, absolutely.

> Is there already some early dwarf/elf reading code in systemtap I could
> reuse ?

We're using the debug-info processing code within the elfutils
library.  In order to build systemtap at all, one needs a version such
as that available in fedora rawhide.

- FChE