Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750833AbWAPOhG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:37:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750837AbWAPOhG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:37:06 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:39613 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750833AbWAPOhF (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:37:05 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] omit symbol size field in print_symbol() From: Arjan van de Ven To: Akinobu Mita Cc: ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060116121834.GD539@miraclelinux.com> References: <20060116121611.GA539@miraclelinux.com> <20060116121834.GD539@miraclelinux.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:37:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1137422221.3034.25.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 15 On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 21:18 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote: > I can't find useful usage for the symbol size in print_symbol(). > And symbolsize seems to be fixed when vmlinux or modules are compiled. > So we can calculate it from vmlinux or modules. the use is that you can see if the EIP actually is inside the function, or if the decoder is going bonkers. Quite useful feature that... - 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/