Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] xen-block: correctly define structures in public headers | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2013 12:10:15 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 09:28 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > This could probably even be semi automated by producing a script to feed > to gdb which run through all of the options and diffing the result. > > If I could have the moon on a stick I would have a tool such as this > running against the canonical Xen headers, to catch breakage as it is > introduced upstream and a tool which could run against an arbitrary ELF > binary to validate it against the upstream results. > tools/include/xen-foreign/mkchecker.py goes some way towards that but > isn't really extensible to the extent we would need/want.
Perhaps the gdb python extensions are what we need: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9788679/how-to-get-the-relative-adress-of-a-field-in-a-structure-dump-c
or perhaps http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/docs/perl/manual/utils/c2ph.html
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