Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] perf report: Show branch type statistics for stdio mode

[Jin, Yao]

On 4/19/2017 2:53 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 06:21:05AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:

SNIP

+const char *branch_type_name(int type)
+{
+       const char *branch_names[PERF_BR_MAX] = {
+               "N/A",
+               "JCC",
+               "JMP",
+               "IND_JMP",
+               "CALL",
+               "IND_CALL",
+               "RET",
+               "SYSCALL",
+               "SYSRET",
+               "IRQ",
+               "INT",
+               "IRET",
+               "FAR_BRANCH",
+       };
+
+       if ((type >= 0) && (type < PERF_BR_MAX))
+               return branch_names[type];
+
+       return NULL;

looks like we should add util/branch.c with above functions
and merge it with util/parse-branch-options.c

we create new file even for less code ;-)

thanks,
jirka

Could we directly add branch_type_name() in util/parse-branch-options.c?

I just feel it's a bit waste of creating a new file for less code. :)

Thanks
Jin Yao