Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf-probe: Improve probing on versioned symbols

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Thu Dec 07 2017 - 01:11:13 EST


On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:13:28 +0530
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Masami,
>
>
> On 12/06/2017 08:36 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > [4/5] Find versioned symbol from map without wildcard.
> > This allows user to specify a symbol without version
> > suffix nor wildcard. Anyway, at this point we have
> > no way to specify version suffix, because parser
> > recognizes "@" is a separator of "function@file"
> > syntax. This is fixed in next patch.
> > [5/5] Allow user to use backslash-escaped characters
> > on command line. This has 2 effects, user can specify
> > version suffix directly, and we can use special
> > characters in source file.
>
> Just a thought. Will it be good to describe / illustrate this
> in man page as well?

Good catch! I forgot that...

Thanks!


>
> Thanks,
> Ravi
>


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