On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:37:01PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 21:18 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > I can't find useful usage for the symbol size in print_symbol().
> > And symbolsize seems to be fixed when vmlinux or modules are compiled.
> > So we can calculate it from vmlinux or modules.
>
>
> the use is that you can see if the EIP actually is inside the function,
> or if the decoder is going bonkers. Quite useful feature that...
>
If it is really useful, should we have it on x86-64 too?
The patches 1/3 and 2/3 will do that.
Andi Kleen doesn't want because The call trace on x86-64 could have more
than one symbol per line, but my patches will print more characters than
now.
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