Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108

Alan Cox
2006-09-15T12:16:23Z

Ar Gwe, 2006-09-15 am 13:46 +0200, ysgrifennodd Roman Zippel:
> > That misses the entire point. If you have dynamic tracepoints you don't
> > have any static tracepoints to maintain because you don't need them.
>
> This assumes dynamic tracepoints are generally available, which is wrong.

Wrong in what sense, you don't have them implemented or your
architecture is mindbogglingly braindead you can't implement them ?

> This assumes that dynamic tracepoints can't benefit from static source
> annotations, which is also wrong.

gcc -g produces extensive annotations which are then usably by many
tools other than gdb.

Alan