Re: [PATCH] basic perf support for sparc

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 12:32 +0200, Frederic Riss wrote:
> 2009/8/4 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>:
> >
> > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> +static void load_perf_bfd_demangle(void)
> >> +{
> >> +     void *handle = dlopen("libbfd-2.19.51.0.2-17.fc11.so", RTLD_NOW);
> >
> > Hm, this does not look like a very generic solution. Is there some
> > way to do a library search to figure out the name? I guess a glob
> > match on /usr/lib/libbfd*.so?
> 
> If all you want is C++ symbols demangling, why not just look for the
> c++filt binary on the system? It accepts mangled names on its stdin
> and outputs the demangled name on stdout.  You can keep it running in
> the background, and communicate through pipes. Of course it's not as
> effective as a library call, but I guess that it'll be much more
> generic and also much more likely to be found on a developer's system
> than a libbfd shared library.

Oddly enough c++filt uses libbfd :-)

$ ldd `which c++filt`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libbfd-2.19.1.so => /usr/lib/libbfd-2.19.1.so (0xf7de9000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xf7dd3000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf7c6f000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7ef9000)