Thanks for pointing out this problem with simpletrace.py. There are two issues:
1. The regular expression used by simpletrace.py to parse trace event declarations cannot cope with concatenated string literals. 2. Format strings must begin and end with double quotes. This was previously undocumented but is necessary because cpp is not run over trace-events, so parsing the strings and portability macros is non-trivial. The follow-up patches fix the regex, add documentation for the format string double quotes requirement, and update your patch. simpletrace.py should work for the coalesced apic trace events now. Stefan
