Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:59:36 -0400 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip 2/4] perf probe: Fix to use symtab only if no debuginfo |
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 03:56:24PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu: >> Fix perf probe to use symtab only if there is no debuginfo, >> because debuginfo has more precise information than symtab. > > "more precise"? Wouldn't it be "more expressive", i.e. with more > information (parameter list with types, return type, location of > parameters, etc), because what is common to both have the same value, > i.e. the function address and size.
Indeed. debuginfo has just more information than symtab, but symtab certainly provides precise information for symbol-address.
Thank you,
-- Masami Hiramatsu e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
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