Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf script: handle the num array type in python properly

Namhyung Kim
2014-05-29T04:43:26Z

On Tue, 27 May 2014 18:14:34 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The raw_syscalls:sys_enter tracer for instance passes has one argument
> named 'arg' which is an array of 6 integers. Right the python scripts
> gets only 0 passed as an argument. The reason is that
> pevent_read_number() can not handle data types of 48 and returns always
> 0.
> This patch changes this by passing num array as list of nums which fit
> the description. As a result python will now see a list named arg which
> contains 6 (integer) items.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

But this requires a change in generation time as I faced a type error
when try to print an array argument as number. I'll post a separate
patch for this.

Thanks,
Namhyung