Re: making unwcheck.sh

[Matt Chapman <matthewc@cse.unsw.edu.au>]

What's wrong with Perl? :)  Okay, so there's plenty wrong with Perl, but
I think it's a decent tool for the job.

I wrote a quick Perl version, though it only works properly on 64-bit
platforms (reports an integer overflow otherwise).  It wouldn't be too
hard to work around this if it's an issue (since for a given function
the upper 32 bits should presumably be invariant), in fact the same
workaround could probably be done in the awk script.

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~matthewc/files/unwcheck.pl

Python seems to handle big numbers better but I don't really know enough
Python.

Matt


On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:38:39AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> Is anybody willing/capable/interested in fixing unwcheck.sh so it can
> actually handle 64-bit addresses?  I'm not much of an awk hacker but I
> noticed that the only reason the script works on the kernel is because
> it drops the first digit of each address (look for gsub() to see what
> I mean).  Of course, that makes it work on the kernel, but it won't
> work for checking a shared object, for example.  Perhaps the whole
> script should just be converted to a real[1] language?
> 
> 
> 	--david
> 
> [1] real = anything other than awk, perl, or tcl... ;-)
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