http://www.linuxrd.com/~carl/cgi-bin/lnxtc.pl?help
--- Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-tracecalls, a new tool for Kernel development, released
>
> If it can't find out where a function could be called through a pointer
> (very common due to the OOP-in-C style in the kernel) it has no chance.
Dear Doctor von Brand,
I believe the following should clear up your misunderstanding, perhaps due
to my poor original choice of words.
Carl Spalletta
PATCH #2
--- lnxtc-2.6.10.pl- 2005-01-21 00:16:33.000000000 -0500
+++ lnxtc-2.6.10.pl 2005-01-21 00:50:11.000000000 -0500
@@ -517,10 +517,22 @@
$leaf_node = 0;
$debug and print STDERR "\ncscope line is $full_caller_cscope";
- #Target is a callback
+ #TARGET IS A PSEUDO-CALLBACK, AN ARTIFACT OF CSCOPE:
+ #
+ #The name of an operations structure member, wrongly interpreted by
+ #cscope as the name of an actual function - it should be ignored,
+ #since it has been confused by cscope with the name of some actual
+ #caller. HOWEVER the callbacks are found anyway, under their actual names.
+ #and if any function pointed to by a callback is part of a chain to
+ #our initial target it _will_ be found, the same as any other caller.
+ #
if($full_caller_cscope =~ /\w+\s*->\s*${target_filefunc}\s*\(/)
{
- $debug and print STDERR "callback $target_filefunc ignored.\n";
+ $debug and
+ print STDERR "pseudo-callback $target_filefunc ignored.\n";
next;
}
-
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