[ltt-dev] LTTV BUG: Recent upgrades broke the JNI interface

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Matthew Khouzam (matthew.khouzam at ericsson.com) wrote:
>
>
> On 10-09-08 05:47 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> * Alexandre Montplaisir (alexandre.montplaisir at polymtl.ca) wrote:
>>    
>>>      
>>>>> You don't want a patch that makes the JNI functions access
>>>>> "marker_field->_offset", do you? I can carry it out-of-tree to restore
>>>>> the previous functionality (and compilability (is that a word?)) for
>>>>> TMF, until they change their parser methods, since they'll probably get
>>>>> hit by the same bug as LTTV.
>>>>>          
>>>> Please don't do buggy workarounds at the library level to leave TMF
>>>> causy with its current bugs please. They must fix their app to upgrade
>>>> to the newer library version, period. I'm afraid we cannot release the
>>>> TMF package until they do.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Mathieu
>>>>        
>>> "Your package is now uploading..."
>>> Ctrl-C, Ctrl-C...
>>>
>>> But still, don't you think a mostly working app with a "KNOWN BUGS:"
>>> disclaimer is better than a completely non-working one? I guess they can
>>> use an older version, which isn't much better.
>>>      
>> Leave TMF with the old version until they adapt then.
>>
>> And common.. this is going to take a jiffy to fix. Why has this not been
>> done yet ? The new library has been out for a few weeks already.
>>    
>
> The main reason is that no-one tested the latest and greatest version of  
> libtraceread for the moment. We are currently working on narowing the  
> gap with lttv on all versions of the library. That being said, a patch  
> on TMF's side will be available soonish.

That's great, thanks !

Mathieu

>
> Matthew
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mathieu
>>
>>    
>>> Matthew: How long do you think it'd take to get fixed? It will require
>>> adjustments both in the jni_interface.c and the JniParser.java code in
>>> TMF, if I remember right.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alexandre
>>>
>>>      
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Alexandre
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mathieu
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>      
>>    
>
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