Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] libtraceevent/perf: Add support for trace-cmd plugins

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:16:11 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> We can be a bit better at the raw print, sure. Here's the format that's
> there:
>
> 	field:__u64 rip;	offset:16;	size:8;	signed:0;
> 	field:__u32 csbase;	offset:24;	size:4;	signed:0;
> 	field:__u8 len;	offset:28;	size:1;	signed:0;
> 	field:__u8 insn[15];	offset:29;	size:15;	signed:0;
> 	field:__u8 flags;	offset:44;	size:1;	signed:0;
> 	field:__u8 failed;	offset:45;	size:1;	signed:0;
>
> It treated __u* as decimal numbers, but it also saw that insn[15] was an
> array, and with single bytes at that. So it thought it was a string, and
> tried to print it out as such.
>
> We can change the heuristics of this to make it more readable.
>

Right. The current heuristic treats an u8 array as a string:

static int field_is_string(struct format_field *field)
{
	if ((field->flags & FIELD_IS_ARRAY) &&
	    (strstr(field->type, "char") || strstr(field->type, "u8") ||
	     strstr(field->type, "s8")))
		return 1;

	return 0;
}

Do you want to get rid of u8 from the function? Or is there a
better way?

Thanks,
Namhyung