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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:37:01PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 21:18 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote: > > I can't find useful usage for the symbol size in print_symbol(). > > And symbolsize seems to be fixed when vmlinux or modules are compiled. > > So we can calculate it from vmlinux or modules. > > > the use is that you can see if the EIP actually is inside the function, > or if the decoder is going bonkers. Quite useful feature that... > I still cannot understand the importance of symbolsize in print_symbol() very well. When is the decoder going bonkers for example? Isn't it the task for kallsyms itself to detect that bonkers? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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