Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-tracecalls, a new tool for Kernel development, released

From: Horst von Brand
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 15:39:20 EST


Carl Spalletta <cspalletta@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> >From http://www.linuxrd.com/~carl/cgi-bin/lnxtc.pl?help

[...]

> "It works, in part, by expanding function-yielding macros and by mangling
> function names with the name of the file containing the function's
> definition, prior to creating the cscope files."

If it can't find out where a function could be called through a pointer
(very common due to the OOP-in-C style in the kernel) it has no chance.
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