* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> [090127 10:27]: > With DWARF you can: > > 1. find out struct layout > 2. find which functions have parameters of the type you want > 3. find which functions have variables of the type you want > 4. Know where such variables and parameters are on memory > using DWARF location expressions (google for loc2c) > > And that is it. Thanks for the quick reply and clarification. > Then... you would need to use libdisasm, that is part of elfutils but is > still a bit rough, being designed mostly for what you get from the > binutils utilities disassembly options. > > Combinining the above you will be able to do what you want. That sounds interesting, but unfortunately the man pages notes that... >> The x86-64 architecture is not supported..LP ... being ia32-only makes it a no go for me. Is there another route you could think of that is not platform-specific? I guess binutils/objdump doesn't actually understand what's happening it just links it back to the code. Hmm... and things like gdb are aware of things because they are platform specific. > I want to look at usage patterns to figure out what are the member > working sets to pass that to my struct member reorganizing routines, run > with performance counters before/after, all automated, and reap the > profits 8) I hear ya. :) Thanks again. -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dwarves" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
