[CFT] Update to clang 3.4
David Chisnall
theraven at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 7 08:55:09 UTC 2014
On 7 Jan 2014, at 06:49, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On 5 Jan 2014, at 05:00, Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org> 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
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