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From: Bart Trojanowski <bart-LIbhotJ4rFdeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
To: dwarves-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: extracting data access from functions
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:11:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090127151124.GA18307@jukie.net> (raw)

I am trying to do some data mining on a large code base.  I would like
to generate a list of structure members accessed by certain functions.

After studying the examples in the pahole.git tree, I am able to walk
the dwarves structures down to the right tags.  However, I am not sure
how to make the next step.

For example, given

void foo(struct s *s)
{
        ... s->var ...
}

I would like to have a tool that reports foo accessing s->var.

Is that possible with the DWARF debug tags?  Maybe using elftools?  I am
trying to avoid the temptation of parsing the C code in perl :)

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
-Bart

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-27 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-27 15:11 Bart Trojanowski [this message]
     [not found] ` <20090127151124.GA18307-LIbhotJ4rFdeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-27 15:27   ` extracting data access from functions Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     [not found]     ` <20090127152724.GB27308-f8uhVLnGfZaxAyOMLChx1axOck334EZe@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-27 15:52       ` Bart Trojanowski
     [not found]         ` <20090127155221.GD18307-LIbhotJ4rFdeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-27 16:01           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     [not found]             ` <20090127160133.GB15877-f8uhVLnGfZaxAyOMLChx1axOck334EZe@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-27 16:26               ` Bart Trojanowski
     [not found]                 ` <20090127162633.GF18307-LIbhotJ4rFdeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-27 23:07                   ` Roland McGrath

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