Re: [PATCH 3/4] compact print_symbol() output

[Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>]

Akinobu Mita (on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:58:27 +0900) wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:52:19AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>> On 1/17/06, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:
>> > Akinobu Mita (on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:15:55 +0900) wrote:
>> > >- remove symbolsize field
>> > >- change offset format from hexadecimal to decimal
>> >
>> > That is silly.  Almost every binutils tool prints offsets in hex,
>> > including objdump and gdb.  Printing the trace offset in decimal just
>> > makes more work for users to convert back to decimal to match up with
>> > all the other tools.
>> >
>> Agreed.
>> Also, hex output is shorter and often more natural for this type of data.
>> 
>
>In my vmlinux, 99.9% of the functions are smaller than 10000 bytes.
>
>10000 == 0x2710
>So. strlen("10000") == 5 < strlen("0x2710") == 6
>Therefore call trace must be more compact.

Which is irrelevant when your change makes more work for everybody who
reads the trace.

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