On 7 Jan 2014, at 06:49, Rui Paulo <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 Jan 2014, at 05:00, Dimitry Andric <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I need some assistance with this, from somebody who knows exactly how >> CTF and DTrace work together. Our CTF tools use libdwarf in base, which >> is also quite old, and seems to be largely unmaintained. It does not >> seem to support anything beyond DWARF2. I think it would be worthwhile >> to upgrade this library from upstream ASAP. > > Our libdwarf was a from scratch implementation and we never used the LGPL > libdwarf. I don't know if it's worth investing time upgrading our BSD > licenced libdwarf or importing the LGPL libdwarf. Given the push to keep the > tree mostly BSD licenced, I would say the former.
LLVM now has fairly complete DRAWF4 parsing support. What interfaces do the ctf tools need, and are they the only consumers of libdwarf? David _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
