From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: "Tim Beaulen" <tbscope@gmail.com>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Getting a global static char
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mvduvzmu7.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd1e9b170811100033s7d4dcb7dyd08e48342172ebf1@mail.gmail.com> (Tim Beaulen's message of "Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:33:02 +0100")
"Tim Beaulen" <tbscope@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm trying to learn Systemtap and while playing around I got to a problem.
You seem to have quite some way, good job.
> I want to read a global static char so I can display the actual
> strings instead of numbers. But Systemtap doesn't seem to find the
> global static char.
> [...]
> static const char qt_meta_stringdata_
> KDERebuildDialog[] = {
> "KDERebuildDialog\0\0slotStartButtonClicked()\0"
> [...]
> At the moment, all I want to do is read that string and display it. I
> created a .stp file with the following code:
> probe process(@1).function("qt_metacast").call { printf("%s %s
> (%s)\n",pp(),$$parms,$qt_meta_stringdata_KDERebuildDialog) }
That should almost work (even though your string has those funky
embedded \0's). You'd need a user_string($qt_meta_...) to extract the
value as a string. But I believe our bug #4906 and another one is
impacting resolution of some global variables. Sorry about that,
we'll try to fix it soon.
> If I leave out that string, I get output like this:
> process("/home/kde4/projects/kderebuild/kderebuild").function("qt_metacast").call
> this=0x7b _clname=0x0
Do those 0x7b/0x0 values look correct, by the way? We're finding
gcc's current debugging info limitations more severely impact
userspace probing than kernel. (bug #6941, #1155, and may gcc GCC VTA
be ready soon).
- FChE
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