Re: [PATCH] Add static probes to runtime linker

[Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>]

Roland McGrath wrote:
> Please write up somewhere an English description of each probe,
> saying what it means, what types and meanings its arguments have,
> etc.
> 
> The LIBC_PROBE macro already results in using a "provider" name
> that's something like "rtld" or "libc".  So there is no need to
> put an "rtld_" prefix on each probe name.

Thanks for the quick review!  I've updated my patch with these
changes.  I also wrote a little about the original linker-debugger
interface; the probes interface reuses some of the structures, but
they're not documented anywhere to my knowledge other than the
comments in link.h.

> Since this won't land in 2.16, you probably want to open a bugzilla
> report to track it and mark it for the 2.17 milestone.

Filed as http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14298

Thanks,
Gary

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