Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] Converting tracetool.sh to tracetool.py

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

2012/1/10 Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>:
> Harsh Prateek Bora writes:
>> +class Event(object):
>> +    def __init__(self, num, line):
>> +        self.num = num
>> +        self.args = get_args(line)
>> +        self.arglist = self.args.split(',')
>> +        self.name = get_name(line)
>> +        self.argc = get_argc(line)
>> +        self.argnames = get_argnames(line)
>> +        self.sizestr = calc_sizeofargs(line)
>> +        self.fmt = get_fmt(line)
>
> This is not not extracting the event properties (e.g., disable). A set of
> strings should suffice.
>
> Arguments could be converted to an Arguments class (or similar, like
> ArgumentList) and derive the rest from there using methods (e.g., names, types,
> sizestr, arglist, etc.).

Yes, that would be nice.  This will separate the trace-events parsing
from the rest of the program, which can use the Event/Argument
interface instead of parsing strings.

Stefan