Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261878AbVASUiF (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:38:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261881AbVASUiF (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:38:05 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:47765 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261878AbVASUiB (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:38:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200501192037.j0JKbpuA008501@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Carl Spalletta cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-tracecalls, a new tool for Kernel development, released In-Reply-To: Message from Carl Spalletta of "Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:38:32 -0800." <20050119193832.34975.qmail@web53803.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:37:51 -0300 From: Horst von Brand X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.4 (inti.inf.utfsm.cl [200.1.19.1]); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:37:55 -0300 (CLST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 21 Carl Spalletta said: > >From http://www.linuxrd.com/~carl/cgi-bin/lnxtc.pl?help [...] > "It works, in part, by expanding function-yielding macros and by mangling > function names with the name of the file containing the function's > definition, prior to creating the cscope files." 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. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/