[lttng-dev] [PATCH] lttng-gen-tp: remove support for # comments
Yannick Brosseau
yannick.brosseau at gmail.com
Tue Jun 25 11:02:06 EDT 2013
On 2013-06-23 15:38, Romain Lenglet wrote:
> Hi Yannick,
>
> Your change does the job, thanks!
>
> However, the regular expression "#[^include].*$" is incorrect, as [] matches a set of characters.
> For instance, '#not an include' is not removed as you intended, as '#' is followed by 'n'.
>
> I'd suggest using this regular expression instead:
> '#(?!include).*$'
Yeah, good point, I did it really quickly. I'll send a fix soon (with
more test)
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Romain Lenglet
>
> On Jun 22, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Yannick Brosseau <yannick.brosseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope the latest commit on lttng-gen-tp which allows to add #include to
>> the .tp will be an appropriate fix for your needs
>>
>> On 2013-06-18 17:22, Romain Lenglet wrote:
>>> I need to use non-trivial types in TP_ARGS, e.g. uint64_t, or custom C++ classes.
>>> In the latter case, the motivation is to call accessors on C++ objects only when actually tracing, in TP_FIELDS.
>>> This absolutely requires including standard header files such as stdint.h, or header files defining C++ classes.
>>>
>>> What other solutions would you suggest to cleanly enable users to include header files from .tp files?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> --
>>> Romain Lenglet
>>>
>>> On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Yannick Brosseau <yannick.brosseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2013-06-18 13:49, Romain Lenglet wrote:
>>>>> Support #define, #include, etc. in tracepoint files.
>>>> Do you have a specific use case that demonstrate the need for that?
>>>>
>>>> The design goal of lttng-gen-tp included generating tracepoints for
>>>> other language than C, so we wanted a format more agnostics hence the
>>>> support for # comments
>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Romain Lenglet <romain.lenglet at berabera.info>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> doc/man/lttng-gen-tp.1 | 2 +-
>>>>> tools/lttng-gen-tp | 3 ---
>>>>> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-gen-tp.1 b/doc/man/lttng-gen-tp.1
>>>>> index 84c05c9..96f02c4 100644
>>>>> --- a/doc/man/lttng-gen-tp.1
>>>>> +++ b/doc/man/lttng-gen-tp.1
>>>>> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ TRACEPOINT_LOGLEVEL.
>>>>> (See lttng-ust(3) for the complete list of available definition.)
>>>>>
>>>>> You write them as you would write them in a C header file. You can add
>>>>> -comments with \fB/* */\fP, \fB//\fP and \fB#\fP.
>>>>> +comments with \fB/* */\fP and \fB//\fP.
>>>>>
>>>>> The provider name (the first field of TRACEPOINT_EVENT) must be
>>>>> the same for the whole file.
>>>>> diff --git a/tools/lttng-gen-tp b/tools/lttng-gen-tp
>>>>> index 5937dfd..5ea221b 100755
>>>>> --- a/tools/lttng-gen-tp
>>>>> +++ b/tools/lttng-gen-tp
>>>>> @@ -159,9 +159,6 @@ class TemplateFile:
>>>>>
>>>>> self.text = f.read()
>>>>>
>>>>> - #Remove # comments (from input and output file
>>>>> - removeComments = re.compile("#.*$",flags=re.MULTILINE)
>>>>> - self.text = removeComments.sub("",self.text)
>>>>> #Remove // comments
>>>>> removeLineComment = re.compile("\/\/.*$",flags=re.MULTILINE)
>>>>> nolinecomment = removeLineComment.sub("",self.text)
>>
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