From: "Egger, Christoph" <chegger@amazon.de>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@citrix.com>,
Matthew Daley <mattjd@gmail.com>,
Miguel Clara <miguelmclara@gmail.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcov: Support gcc 4.7
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:49:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BEE9B6.7080702@amazon.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371465779.23802.31.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On 17.06.13 12:42, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 09:29 +0100, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>> gcc 4.7 changed format used internally for coverage data.
>> This patch address these changes.
>> The information that gcc generate are mostly the same but to support common
>> sections.
>> The only difference in the blob exported by Xen is that functions have 2
>> different checksums instead of one.
>
> Do we really need to reflect that in the Xen public API though? Could we
> condense it into the things we want/need and try and keep our API
> relatively stable?
>
> I'm a bit concerned that we are going to end up with dozens of variants
> of the API (and the internal code) supporting each new variant of this
> internal-to-gcc ABI.
>
> I think you explained before why this couldn't be exported from the
> hypervisor as an opaque set of bytes to be interpreted by a userspace
> tool, which is a shame.
I think this is possible the same way the hypervisor exports
machine check error telemetry.
Christoph
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-17 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-17 8:29 [PATCH] gcov: Support gcc 4.7 Frediano Ziglio
2013-06-17 8:58 ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-28 10:18 ` Frediano Ziglio
2013-06-28 10:26 ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-17 9:50 ` George Dunlap
2013-06-17 10:42 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-17 10:46 ` Frediano Ziglio
2013-06-17 10:49 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-17 12:25 ` Frediano Ziglio
2013-06-18 14:32 ` Frediano Ziglio
2013-06-18 14:53 ` George Dunlap
2013-06-18 15:04 ` Frediano Ziglio
2013-06-17 10:49 ` Egger, Christoph [this message]
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