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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:21:09 +1030
From:      "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: DTrace and function names
Message-ID:  <EC3BBA9A-1FC2-4221-9093-43C7F577D71E@dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <54B9302A.7070002@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 17 Jan 2015, at 02:07, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 1/15/15 9:55 PM, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 15 Jan 2015, at 00:47, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>> So it shows _some_ function names from libc but mostly not.. Is =
there a way to improve it?
>>>=20
>>> Build with debug symbols?  For libc you can do that via:
>>>=20
>>> % cd /usr/src/lib/libc
>>> % make cleandir
>>> % make obj
>>> # May want to use "-O -g" to reduce inlining
>>> % make DEBUG_FLAGS=3D"-g" depend all install
>>=20
>> OK, I guess I was thinking it wasn't necessary since some of the =
symbols showed up :(
>=20
> Yeah, libc will always include symbols for the public functions it
> exports, but without -g you won't have symbols for any internal
> functions (and that's generally true of any shared library AFAIK).

Right, I guess it seems surprising so many internal functions show up..

I wonder if dtrace has an option to collapse the internal functions into =
their public parents (too much to hope for I imagine :)

--
Daniel O'Connor
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