Re: [PATCH V6 0/8] perf tools: kcore improvements

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:30:56PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:01:10PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> >> 	- workaround objdump difficulties with kcore
> >
> > I've no idea, but given that've 'inlined' addr2line, should we also
> > consider polling in objdump -- or at least that subset of functionality
> > that we actually use?
> 
> FWIW addr2line is just a straight forward BFD call.
> 
> objdump is significantly more complex, a lot of it is outside BFD
> (including the full disassembler and all the logic for syncing
> the source files)

Oh, that's unfortunate, I was hoping most of that would indeed be in
some library form or other.
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